98 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 53

in said notice or notices. All taxes are due and payable on the
first day of July in each and every year and if not paid on
or before the first day of July shall bear interest at the rate of
one per centum per month until paid and if not paid on or be-
fore the first day of January next following, the treasurer
shall make up a list of the unpaid taxes, and shall advertise
the same in some newspaper published in Prince George's
County, once in each of three successive weeks, and give notice
in said advertisement that on a day to be named therein, not
later than one month from the date of the first insertion there-
in, he will sell the properties therein named to the highest bid-
der for cash. All properties so sold may be redeemed by the
owner thereof or his assigns within two years of said date of
sale, and: in the event of the non-redemption of the same as
herein provided, the Mayor and Council shall deliver to the
purchaser thereof a deed for said property so sold and the said
deed so given shall be presumptive evidence that all the require-
ments of the law have been complied with in making such sale.
All taxes duly levied, after the transmittal of the list to the
treasurer as in this section hereinbefore provided, shall be a
first lien upon the property against which they are assessed.

In the event that in the election hereinafter provided for to
determine whether the citizens of Riverdale desire to be incor-
porated, shall be favorable to incorporation the taxes for the
calendar year 1920 shall be at one-half the rate prescribed in
the first assessment made by the Board of Assessors herein
provided for and the same shall be due and payable on or be-
fore July first, 1920, and that the penalty for nonpayment at
the rate of one per centum per month shall not be exacted un-
less said taxes be not paid before August 1, 1920.

Said assessors and the Mayor and Common Council shall have
the right at any time to place on the assessment real estate,
not included therein or on improvements made or erected after
the making of said assessments.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1924.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 53.

AN ACT to add 25 new sections to Article 12 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland, title ''Garrett County, " to
be under a new sub-title entitled "County Home and County
Farm, " said new sections to be known as Sections 41AA,