516 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 292

CHAPTER 292.

AN ACT to amend the Charter of the town of Brunswick, in
Frederick County, as said Charter is contained in Chapter
456 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland
of the year 1916, by adding thereto a new section, to be
designated as "Section 16A," enlarging the powers of the
Town Clerk and Treasurer with reference to the collection
of taxes levied on personal property.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Charter of the Town of Brunswick, in Fred-
erick County, as said Charter is contained in Chapter 456, of
the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of the year
1916, be, and the same is, hereby amended by adding thereto a
new section, to follow immediately after Section 16, to be
designated as Section 16A, and to read as follows:

16A. If any person or persons, partnership, association or
body corporate shall be assessed upon the assessment books of
said town with personal property only, and the amount of
taxes levied thereon shall remain unpaid on the 1st day of
January next succeeding the annual levy of taxes in said
town, the said Town Clerk and Treasurer shall, within one
month after the said 1st day of January in each and every
year, or within one month after the discovery of any property
belonging to such delinquent, levy upon such portions of the
personal property assessed to such delinquent tax payers, as
may be necessary to pay the said taxes, interest, costs and
fees, as herein provided, in the same manner as the Sheriff of
Frederick County is now or may hereafter be authorized by
law to levy upon property on execution on judgments issued
out of the Circuit Court for said county, and shall advertise
and sell said personal property in the same manner as is now
or may hereafter be required by law in case of sales of personal
property by the Sheriff of said county, and to deliver the
property so sold to the purchaser or purchasers thereof; and
for the purpose of the levy of the sale, herein provided for,
said Town Clerk and Treasurer shall have all the powers now
had or lawfully exercised by the Sheriff of said county, in
enforcing executions on judgments of the Circuit Court for
said county, and shall, if necessary, have the same powers,
now or hereafter prescribed by law, for the levy upon and
sale of shares of stock in any association or corporation, which