478 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 269

thereafter as practicable. Such taxes shall become due and
payable on the first day of January next succeeding such levy
and all taxes remaining unpaid after that date shall bear
interest at the rate of six per centum per annum. Not later
than December 15th next succeeding such levy, the Commis-
sioners shall cause to be made out and delivered to the Bailiff
an alphabetical list of the tax payers in said Town, together
with the respective sums to be collected from such persons,
The Bailiff shall forthwith make diligent efforts to collect
the said taxes, and unless the same, together with accrued in-
terest, shall be paid to the Bailiff on or before March first next
succeeding the date of such levy, then the Bailiff shall seize
goods, chattels, lands and tenements of any person refusing
or neglecting to pay the same, and after giving at least twenty
days' notice of the time and place of sale by written or printed
hand-bills set up in five public places in said Town, and printed
at least three times in some newspaper published in said Wi-
comico County, he shall sell the property so seized, at public
auction to the highest bidder, or so much thereof as may be
necessary to pay the said taxes, accrued interest and all costs
of such advertisement and sale, including a fee of Three Dol-
lars ($3. 00) to such Bailiff; and unless said taxes, accrued
interest and all such costs shall be paid to the said Bailiff
within thirty days after the date of such sale, the Bailiff shall
thereafter transfer and convey said seized property to any
purchaser thereof by good and sufficient title papers forever
and in fee simple.

SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That the said Com-
missioners shall not expend nor contract to expend in any one
year more money than the amount receivable by the Town
from taxes and other sources for that year.

SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect on June 1st, 1927.

Approved April 1, 1927.

CHAPTER 269.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the County Commis-
sioners of Montgomery County, Maryland, to make spe-
cial annual levies of not more than twelve (12) cents
on each $100. 00 of the assessable value of the real and
personal property within a certain defined area in Bethesda