910 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

November, and shall be due and may be paid to the City Col-
lector on or after the first day of January next ensuing. The
taxes included in said levy on real estate or chattels real, and
on all forms of personal property, including shares of stock and
other property, valued or subject to valuation by the State Tax
Commissioner, shall be in arrears on the first day of July next
ensuing the date of their levy, and the taxes on all forms of
property after they become in arrears as aforesaid shall bear in-
terest at the rate of six per centum per annum.

43. Whenever it shall become necessary to sell any part or
parcel of ground in the City of Baltimore, improved or unim-
proved, for the payment of any taxes or assessment, of any
nature or kind whatever, levied or charged, the City Collector
shall first give notice by advertisement published once a week
for four successive weeks in two of the daily newspapers pub-
lished in said city, one of which shall be in the German language,
and in every issue of the Municipal Journal during said four
weeks, that he will sell said property at public auction on the
day in said advertisement mentioned. Said notice shall state
the name of the person, when known, to whom such a parcel of
ground is assessed, the amount of taxes due on the same, and
what improvements, if any, are on said parcel of ground, and
to properly describe said property the City Collector shall pro-
cure a description from the Land Records and no survey shall
be made unless a proper description cannot be obtained from
the Land Records, and no charge for survey shall be made un-
less a survey is actually made. If a proper description cannot be
obtained from the Land Records, the City Surveyor shall, upon
direction of the City Collector make a proper survey and fur-
nish a description and plat to the City Collector, and the sum
of three dollars for the cost of such survey shall be added to
the tax bill, and collected in the same manner as the bill itself,
and paid over to the City Register for the use of the City. The
City Collector shall, before advertising said property for sale,
give to the person or persons so in arrears, or to one of them, if
more than one, or leave at his or her or their residence, or last
known residence of one of them, and if no such residence be
known, there shall be left upon the premises so to be sold for
taxes, a statement of his or her or their indebtedness, and not
less than thirty days' notice of his (said Collector's) intention,
if the bill is not paid, to enforce the payment thereof by distraint
or execution. Provided, however, that this paragraph shall not
apply to or affect the present City Surveyor.