176 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 88

been made to notify each person against whom, or the known
owner of each piece of property against which, any tax has been
levied by placing a tax bill showing the amount due in the
United States mail with sufficient postage prepaid, addressed
to such persons or owners at their last known postoffice ad-
dresses. In case such owner or owners are unknown, such bills
shall, be left, or set up upon the premises against which the
taxes are levied. All taxes shall be payable to the Town Clerk
and Treasurer, and his receipt therefor shall be the receipt of
the Mayor and Common Council of Mount Rainier.

All taxes levied against real and personal property in said
town which are not paid on or before the 31st day of December
in the year of their levy, shall be in default, and an additional
charge of one dollar per property will be made for searching
records, etc., against each person so in default, and it shall
then be the duty of the Town Clerk and Treasurer to advertise
all such real property for public sale on or before the third
Monday in February of the year succeeding the year for which
said taxes remain unpaid, by advertisement in a weekly news-
paper published in Prince George's County once a week, at least
two weeks before such sale, which advertisement shall state the
day of sale, the name of the party in whom the property is as-
sessed, if known, and the amount of taxes due with interest and
costs, and also a description of the property sufficient to identify
the same, which said sale shall be held at some public place
in said town named in said advertisement commencing at ten
o'clock A. M., and shall continue thereafter from day to day
until all of said property shall have been sold, and the amount
of purchase money paid for any property at such sale or sales
shall bear interest at the rate of twelve per cent, per annum,
from the day of sale and until the same be paid, or the proper-
ty deeded, as hereinafter provided.

In all cases where lands held in fee simple or by lease have
been sold, or shall be sold for the payment of taxes in arrears,
it shall be the duty of the Town Clerk and Treasurer to report
the sale, together with all the proceedings had in relation
thereto to the Circuit Court for Prince George's County within
thirty days thereafter. The said Court shall examine the
proceedings, and if the same appears to be regular, and the
provisions of law in relation thereto have been complied with,
shall order notice to be given by advertisement published in
such newspaper or newspapers as the Court shall direct, warn-
ing all persons interested in the property sold to be and appear
by a certain day in the said notice to be named, to show cause,