ART. 9.] CHARLES COUNTY. 733

date of the first advertisement, together with accrued interest
thereon and proportionate cost of advertising fees, the Treas-
urer shall proceed at 10 A. M. on a named day, at the court-
house door in said county, to offer each and every parcel of
land, premises and other property for sale to the highest bidder
for cash. The said notice shall be published in not less than
four weekly insertions in each of the newspapers hereinbefore
referred to, and on the said clay, at the time named, the Treas-
urer shall proceed to sell any and all such parcels of land,
premises and personal property on which taxes, interests, costs
and fees shall not have been paid, and to continue said sale each
day (legal holidays excepted), from 10 A. M. until 3 o'clock
P. M., until every such parcel of land, premises and personal
property, or more than a sufficient quantity to pay all taxes,
costs and expenses for each case, shall have been offered for
sale. In case for any piece of property there shall not be a
sufficient bid to cover the taxes, interests, costs and expenses,
the same shall be bid in by the County Commissioners, the same
to be reported, as in other cases, as land sold for taxes,
and at the expiration of the time limited for redemption,
shall pass to the county, to become absolutely the prop-
erty of the county, subject to be sold thereafter by the County
Commissioners at public sale in substantially like manner as
property is sold under the Public General Laws of this State by
mortgage or attorney for mortgagee, under power of sale in-
serted therein. The compensation for the Treasurer in the pro-
ceedings hereinbefore set forth for the taxation of property, not
including court expenses in ratification proceedings, shall be
such as shall be prescribed by the County Commissioners of
Charles county, who shall adopt a uniform system of charges
as far as practicable, applicable to all work of a similar char-
acter. The County Treasurer shall not be allowed any expendi-
ture for attorneys' fees, but it shall be the duty of the attorney
to the County Commissioners to advise him and act as attorney
for him in all of his official work requiring the advice or ser-
vices of an attorney for him as Treasurer, and no com-
pensation shall be charged, allowed or paid to any paper
other than as designated by the County Commissioners as here-
inbefor.e set forth; provided, however, that all advertising to be
done under this Act shall be inserted in two newspapers
printed in said Charles county, bona fide representing the two
political parties as aforesaid; and provided, further, that in
case of controversy as to what newspaper in good faith repre-
sents either of the leading political parties that paper shall be
named which may be designated by the central committee repre-
senting the party in which such controversy may arise.