708 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

is sold, the Town Clerk shall sell the same at the Court House,
in Centreville, for cash, after giving at least three weeks' pre-
vious notice by advertisement of the time and place of sale ; said
advertisement to state the name of the person to whom the real
estate is assessed, and shall contain a locatable description of the
same, as required by the terms of Section 59-B; thereafter the
Town Clerk shall proceed as required by the terms of Section
59-C.

59-1. If personal property is levied on, actual possession
shall be taken thereof, and for the purpose of taking actual
possession of said personal property, the Town Clerk is hereby
authorized and empowered to enter upon any premises or into
any building in which such personal property may be, take pos-
session of and remove the same; and it shall be sold for cash at
some convenient and public place within said town of Centre-
ville after ten days' notice by handbills set up in five public
places in said town; thereafter the Town Clerk shall proceed as
required by terms of Section 59-C. And whenever personal
property that has been assessed in said town, and upon which
there are taxes levied and unpaid, shall be removed from said
town before said tax has been paid, the Town Clerk shall fol-
low such property and collect the said taxes in the same manner
as if the said property had not been so removed. The Town
Clerk shall receive, in addition to the cost of advertisement, the
following fees under this Section: levy, $2.00; setting up of
notices, $1.00; crying sales, $1.00; reporting same, $1.00, and
ten per cent, commissions on proceeds of sale.

59-J. The Town Clerk shall be entitled to receive a commis-
sion of ten per cent, on the amount of all sales made by him in
pursuance of the provisions of this Article, to be computed and
charged as part of the expenses of such sale; and if before a
sale, but after advertisement as aforesaid, the taxes, interest
and expenses chargeable to any property are paid, then the said
Town Clerk shall be entitled to receive a commission of five per
cent, on the amount of such taxes, interest and costs, as a part
of the cost of collecting the same.

59-K. The real estate of a delinquent taxpayer may be sold
to pay the town taxes, whether there be personal property or
not; whenever the Town Clerk shall deem it unnecessary to sell
the entire real property with which a delinquent taxpayer is
assessed, he shall estimate the quantity of which in his judg-
ment will be sufficient to pay the taxes in arrear, interest and
cost of sale, and shall require the County Surveyor to lay off