ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 453

sioners to a purchaser thereof, and conveyance made, shall be
stricken from the said book and be assessed anew to the said
purchaser and placed upon the assessment books of said county.
After each period of forfeiture said County Treasurer, for the
time being, shall make up a list of all such forfeited properties,
which list shall be inserted weekly for six consecutive weeks

before the day of sale hereinafter provided for in three news-
papers published in said Prince George's County, to be selected
by said County Treasurer, one of which newspapers shall be
published in the town of Upper Marlboro, one thereof
in the town of Hyattsville, and one thereof in the town of
Laurel, provided that such a newspaper exist and shall have
been established in its respective town at least two years pre-
ceding the date of the first publication of said advertisement;
and shall contain a description of each piece of such forfeited
properties, its location by district, its name, if any and known,
and the quantity of land approximately it contains, and any
other information, known to said County Treasurer, which may
more fully identify the same. To such list shall be appended
a notice that on a certain day, to be named therein, said County

Treasurer will at half-past ten o'clock A. M., at the court-house
door, in the town of Upper Marlboro, in said county, proceed
to offer for sale, at public auction, to the highest bidder for
cash, each of the said forfeited parcels of real estate as the
property of the County Commissioners of Prince George's
County, beginning with the first parcel on said list, and con-
tinuing on in the order of said list from day to day, if neces-
sary, from half-past ten o'clock A. M. to three o'clock P. M.,
Sundays and legal holidays excepted, until all have been offered
for sale; and on said day of sale said County Treasurer shall
proceed to make sale in conformity with his said published
notice. No piece of such forfeited real estate offered for sale
as aforesaid shall be sold for less than the total of the taxes,
interest, penalties and costs of sale, including such tax or taxes,
interest and penalties as would have been levied upon it had it
remained on said county assessment books, for which it is then
liable; and if no such bid for the same be made, it shall be
withdrawn from such public sale; thereafter said County Com-
missioners of Prince George's County are authorized and em-
powered to sell the same, at public or private sale, for such
price as they may deem advisable, and upon payment of the
whole purchase money for any parcel of forfeited real estate,
sold as aforesaid, and not before, to said County Treasurer for
the time being, he shall execute to the purchaser thereof a good