412 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 141

George's County, Maryland, having a circulation in. the town
of Cottage City once a week for three successive weeks prior
to the first Monday in April for each year real estate is adver-
tised to be sold for such taxes and assessments. Each piece
of real estate so advertised for sale shall bear a charge of one
dollar to cover the costs of said advertisement and of the order
of publication hereinafter provided, and said amount shall be
included in the amount charged in said list against each piece
of property.

SEC. 5. The said Treasurer, at the time fixed in the ad-
vertisement of tax sale hereinabove referred to, shall attend at
the door of the meeting place of the Cottage City Commission
in the town of Cottage City, Prince George's County, Mary-
land, and offer for sale all real estate so advertised to the
highest bidder, commencing with the first piece of real estate
listed in said advertisement and continuing to conduct said
sale until all of said real estate so advertised shall have been
offered for sale. Said sale shall commence at ten o'clock A.
M. on the first Monday in April of each year and continue
until three o'clock P. M., from day to day, Sundays and legal
holidays excepted, until all the real estate so advertised to be
sold shall have been offered for sale.

SEC. 6. No piece of real estate offered at tax sale by said
Treasurer shall be sold for less than the total of the taxes,
interest, penalties and costs of sale for which it is liable. If
such a bid for the same be not made, it shall be considered
and recorded as sold to the Cottage City Commission for the
total amount thereof. In such case, it shall remain on the
assessment books of the Cottage City and be taxed as other
property thereon, but not re-sold at the succeeding annual tax
and/or assessment sales. A report of all sales made by the
said Treasurer, and final ratification thereof, shall be made and
had as herein provided.

SEC. 7. Any real estate sold under the provisions of this
Act may be redeemed within two years after the published
date of the sale thereof by the payment of the total amount of
the taxes and assessments, interest, penalties and costs for
which the same was sold, interest at twelve per centum per
annum on the amount of such sale from the elate of sale, as
published, to the time of redemption, and all subsequent taxes
and/or assessments, interest, penalties and costs which shall
have accrued thereon.