ALLEGANY COUNTY. 501
the payment of the same; whenever real estate is susceptible
of division, so that a part thereof will sell for enough to pay
the taxes due and all costs, the collector may, in his discretion,
employ a surveyor to divide the same, and tax as part of the
costs in such proceeding such compensation for the service of
such surveyor as he may consider just, not exceeding the sum
of five dollars. Whenever any levy is made notice thereof, to
gether 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 possession of the property, or at his residence, if it be
within the same district, or mailed to him, if his postoffice ad
dress be known, and if not then be conspicuously posted on the
premises, together with a notice that if the said bill for taxes,
interest and costs be not paid within thirty days, the property
levied upon will be sold at public sale; and the said collector
is authorized to expose any property so levied on at public sale
upon expiration of the said thirty days, either on the premises
or at the Court House door in the City of Cumberland in said
county, and to sell the same to the highest bidder for cash, the
said collector having first given twenty days' notice of the time
and place of such sale by advertisement inserted in one news-
paper published in said City of Cumberland, and by printed
handbills publicly posted at said Court House door, and at
least ten places in the district where the property is located,
one of such notice placed upon the premises. Personal prop-
erty may be sold upon ten days' notice by handbills so posted
in the district and at Court House. Any advertised notice of
the sale under the provisions of this section shall be deemed
sufficient if it contains the time, terms and place of such sale,
the year or years for which taxes are due, to whom the prop-
erty is assessed, the district where located, the quantity of land
(if land) offered for sale, if there be record evidence thereof,
and a reference to the Iiber and folio where the deed for said
property may be found, and the date of the deed; in no deed
shall a description by metes and boun,ds be necessary, nor shall
a greater sum than four dollars be paid for any newspaper ad-
vertisements thereof.
43c. When any real estate shall be sold under the provisions
of the preceding section, for taxes, the sale shall be reported to
the Circuit Court for said county by the collector, upon which
report, if the Court shall find the proceedings regular, and that
the provisions of law in relation thereto have been complied
with, there shall be a brief order nisi passed and a copy thereof
published, as in case of judicial sales by trustees; and if no
sufficient cause is shown to the contrary, the sale shall be rati-
fied by the said Court; but if sufficient cause be shown to the
contrary, in the judgment of said Court, said sale shall be set
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