PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1607

shall hereafter be recorded among the said Mortgage Records,
the tax payable on said mortgage shall become payable, due and
in arrear, on the first day of September, in the year nineteen
hundred and ten, and on the first day of September in every
subsequent year, during the existence of such mortgage. If the
tax is paid before it becomes payable, due and in arrear, a re-
bate of two per centum on the amount of the tax shall be allowed,
and interest shall be collected from September 1st if the tax is
not paid by January 1st. As soon as the tax on any mortgage
in any year shall become due and in arrear the Treasurer of
Dorchester County, if the tax has not been paid, shall proceed
with reasonable diligence to enforce the payment thereof; he
shall prepare or cause to be prepared two similar written, type-
written, or printed notices, and in each one of the same he shall
state the name or names of the mortgagee or mortgagees, of
the mortgagor or mortgagors, the date of the original mortgage,
the amount of the original debt, the rate of interest, the year
for which the tax is claimed and the yearly amount of the tax
on the original debt. To each of said statements shall be ap-
pended a warning, that unless the tax payable on the mortgage
is paid within one month from the date of the service of the
notice, the Treasurer of Dorchester County shall proceed to
enforce payment of the tax by law; one of the said notices in-
cluding the statement and warning shall be served, as herein-
after mentioned, on the party or parties by whom the tax is
paid. Such notices shall be served by the Treasurer of Dor-
chester County, or by one of his deputies or assistants, or by
the Sheriff of said County, or by one of his deputies and such
service may be made by delivering one of such notices to the
party or parties aforesaid, in person or by leaving such notices
at his usual place of residence or abode, or in case the party or
parties do not reside in Dorchester County, the notice may be
served by posting the same at the Court House door in Cam-
bridge, in said County. If the mortgagee is dead and he owned
the mortgage at the time of his death the service may be made
by delivering the notice to his executor or administrator,

in person or by leaving the same at his usual residence
or place of abode, or if such executor or administrator
does not reside in Dorchester County, the service may be
made by posting the notices at the Court House

door in said County, but if the mortgage has been
assigned the service may be made on the assignee in the same
manner, as it may be made on the mortgagee, and if the assignee
is dead, the service may be made on his executor or administra-