ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 411
CHAPTER 141.

AN ACT to provide for the collection of taxes on real estate
levied and special assessments made, by the town of Cottage
City, to fix the date taxes shall become due, and the interest,
penalties and costs on taxes and special assessments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, as follows:

SEC. 2. All taxes levied by the Cottage City Commission
on real estate shall be clue on the first day of July next suc-
ceeding their levy and shall bear interest from that date. On
such as remain unpaid after the first day of November follow-
ing, there shall accrue, in addition to said interest, a penalty
of one-half of one per cent, for each whole month that may
elapse thereafter, until paid, or a sale for default shall have
been finally ratified by the Court.

SEC. 3. The Treasurer of the town of Cottage City shall
be the collector of all taxes levied, and special assessments made
by it, and shall have full power to enforce payment thereof
by the sale of the property liable therefor, and to convey a
good title to any such property sold by him. Taxes and special
assessments levied upon real estate shall be a lien thereon from
the date the same are levied or made.

SEC. 4. The Treasurer of said town of Cottage City shall
prepare, after the first day of February in each year, a list of
all taxes in default levied, and all special assessments which
may be due and not paid upon real estate within the corporate
limits of the town of Cottage City, commencing with the tax
year 1929-1930. Said list shall set out respectively the name
or names of the owner or owners of the real estate so listed;
a fair description of each piece of real estate sufficient to notify
the owner or owners thereof that it is his property which is
advertised; the amount of the taxes and/or assessments, inter-
est, penalties and costs for which the same is liable; and a
reference to the sub-division in which said real estate is situate.
The amount of said taxes and/or assessments, interest, penal-
ties and costs may be indicated by the dollar sign and a period
in the same way dollars and cents are usually written in
figures, as, for instance, "$3. 50. " The said Treasurer shall
publish said list in some newspaper published in Prince