344 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

he may consider just, not exceeding the sum of four dollars.
Whenever any levy is made, notice thereof, together with a
copy of the bill for taxes due, interest and all costs, including
that of the levy, shall be delivered to the owner if he be in pos-
session of the property, or be conspicuously posted on the prem-
ises, together with a notice that if said bill be not paid within
thirty days the property levied upon will be advertised and sold
at public sale; and the collector and treasurer is authorized to
expose any property so levied upon at public sale at the expira-
tion of thirty days, either on the premises or at the court house
door in Annapolis, and to sell the same to the highest bidder
for cash, the said collector and treasurer having first given
twenty days' notice of the time and place of such sale by adver-
tisement inserted in some newspaper published in Annapolis,
and by printed handbills publicly posted at said court house
door; personal property may be sold upon ten days' notice by
handbills so posted at court house door. Any advertised notice
of sale under the provisions of this section shall be sufficient if
it contains the time, terms and place of sale, the year or years
for which the taxes are due, to whom the property is assessed,
the street where located, the quantity of land or size of lot
offered for sale, as it appears upon the assessment books of the
said city of Annapolis; in no case shall a description by metes
and bounds be necessary, nor shall a greater sum than two
dollars be paid for any newspaper advertisement thereof. The
said collector and treasurer shall receive for costs of making
said levy the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents, said
amount to be included in the tax bill as part of the costs, and
he may make the levy in person, or authority is hereby given
him to appoint some person above the age of twenty-one years,
to make said levy for him.

SEC. 58c. When any real estate shall be sold under the pro-
visions of the preceding section, the sale shall be reported to
the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel county, upon which report
there shall be a brief order nisi published, as in cases of judi-
cial sales by trustees; and if the court shall find that the pro-
visions of said section have been complied with, the sale shall
be ratified upon the ratification of said sale the collector and
treasurer shall convey to the purchaser the property purchased
by him upon the payment of the costs of the deed by the pur-
chaser; and the bond of the collector and treasurer shall be
liable for the money paid by the purchaser in the event of the
sale not being ratified, and for all money accruing from such
sale. The collector and treasurer shall retain out of the pro-
ceeds of the sale the amount of taxes and interest thereon, and
costs of notice, levy, sale and report thereof to the court, and