978 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 495

become due and payable on the first day of the next January
after the day on which the said levy is made, and from and after
that date on which they so fall due they shall bear interest;
the real and leasehold property charged in the assessment book
of the town, to any person or persons, party or parties, shall
be bound for the taxes which may be levied on or against, or
on account of said property, and for all taxes that may be
levied against such person or persons, party or parties; and
all such taxes shall be a lien on said real and leasehold prop-
erty, and shall, as a lien, have priority over all adverse liens,
claims and interest, whosoever may have said property in
charge or possession. It shall be the duty of every person
or party who disposes of any such property, and of the person
or party who purchased or acquired tie same, to see that the
transfer is made on the assessment book of the town, and no
one shall be entitled to a notice of taxes, due and in arrears
on property which is not charged on the assessment book of the
town to such person or party. On and after the day on which
said taxes fall due and payable, as above stated, the tax
collector may proceed to the collection of any said taxes, and
if he proposes to collect said taxes by levy upon the personal
property of the delinquent, he shall first leave with the
party against whom the said taxes are charged, or by whom the
said taxes are to be paid, or with one of them, if more than
one, or at his, her or their usual place of abode, or at the
usual place of abode of one of them, a statement showing the
aggregate amount of property of every description with which
the person is assessed and amount of taxes due thereon, with
a notice annexed thereto, that unless the taxes so due are paid
within ten days thereafter, he, the said tax collector, will
proceed to collect the same by way of distress or execution,
to be levied un. said property. And at any time after ten
days after the said notice has been so delivered the taxes
shall not be paid the tax collector may proceed to collect
the same by levy upon so much of the personal property
of the person or party from whom such taxes are due as
may be necessary to satisfy and pay the delinquent taxes
and. interest, and also all the cost of sale; and after
having given five days' notice of the time, place, man-
ner and terms of sale by hand bills stuck up at the court
house door of Worcester County, in the town of Snow Hill,
and at least three public places on the public streets of Poco-
moke City, may, agreeably to said notice, sell at public auc-
tion for cash the property so levied on at some public place