MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 941

list for sale, and to sell the same at public auction on the sec-
ond Monday of May in each year for the amount of taxes, pen-
alties, interest and costs due on each piece of property, whether
for the year current or for previous years, after publication
and notice of the time and place of sale for at least three weeks
in some newspaper published in Montgomery county, Mary-
land. The notice of the sale shall state the time and place of
the sale, the name or names of the persons or corporation to
whom each piece of property is assessed, and the total amount
of taxes, penalties and costs due from each person or corpora-
tion computed to the day of sale. On the day of the sale
the clerk shall, at the time and place designated in his
notice, offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder so
much of the real estate advertised or posted in the name of the
delinquent taxpayer as shall be necessary to pay the taxes,
penalties and costs, and shall continue the sale from day to
day until the taxes are paid, or until each piece of property
has been sold; when the real estate advertised or posted as
aforesaid shall consist of more than one parcel assessed to
any one delinquent, such parcels, when it is practicable to do
so, shall be offered singly until enough has been realized to
pay the whole of the tax bill owing by such delinquents, inter-
est, penalties, costs and charges as herein provided, and the
remainder of such parcels shall not be offered. In case, how-
ever, said real estate shall consist of but one town lot, whether
improved or not, it shall be offered and sold as a whole. The
town of Woodmont is hereby authorized and empowered to
purchase any property .offered for sale for the payment of
taxes, provided it shall not bid a sum greater than the taxes
in arrears upon said property, penalties, costs, fees and ex-
pense of sale. In such case no such certificate of sale shall be
made, but if at any time thereafter any person shall pay to the
town the amount of the taxes, penalties and costs to date, to-
gether with all taxes, general and special, which may have be-
come due thereon after the date of the sale, with interest at
ten per centum per annum, the clerk shall give to such person
a certificate similar to the certificate given to a -purchaser at
the tax sale, which shall entitle him to the same rights and
privileges as if he had purchased the property at the tax sale.
The said clerk shall within thirty days after the close of the
sale made and herein provided for make a full report to the
Circuit Court for Montgomery County of Ihe sale made by him
of the property located in said county and town, setting forth
his proceedings in the premises in detail, and showing to whom
and at what price such several parcels were severally sold, the
amount of tax, the penalty, interest accrued, proportional cost
of advertising such sale, and the cost and expense of making