886 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

other sections of Chapter two hundred and four of the Acts of
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and all other Acts incon-
sistent with this Act, be and the same are hereby repealed and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

SEC. 262c. Immediately after the first day of February in
each year, the Treasurer shall make up a list of all delinquent
taxpayers and the amounts for which they are respectively in
arrear, and if said taxes are not paid on or before the 20th day
of said month, he shall immediately thereafter cause the same
to be published once a week for two successive weeks in two
county newspapers of general circulation, and charge a pro-
portionate part of the cost thereof to each of said delinquents.
Should any of such taxes so in arrear continue unpaid after
said advertisement, the Treasurer shall make up a further list
of all taxes due and in arrear, which list shall contain the
names of the person or persons assessed, with the property
upon which taxes are so due and in arrear, and a brief descrip-
tion of the property, the district of its location, and such ref-
erences to conveyance as will render the same easy of identifi-
cation, and the amount of the tax levied and in arrear thereon,
with the interest and costs, and expenses accrued and to accrue
thereon to the day of sale, to which list shall be appended a
notice that if the said taxes are not paid on or before the sec-
ond Monday in April next ensuing, together with the accrued
interest thereon and proportional cost of advertising and fees,
the Treasurer will proceed at ten oclock A. M. on that day, at
the courthouse door in said county, to offer each and every
of said parcel of land, premises or other property for sale to
the highest bidder, for cash, which said list and notice shall be
published in, two newspapers printed in said county of general
circulation, for four consecutive weeks prior to the first Mon-
day in April; and on the second Monday in April the said
Treasurer shall proceed to sell any and all such pieces or
parcels of land and premises and personal property on which
said taxes, interest, costs and fees shall not then have been
paid, and shall continue such sale each secular day, legal holi-
days excepted, from ten o'clock A. M. until 3 o'clock P. M.,
until every parcel and all said property shall have been sold.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1910.