548 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 198

within twenty days after the first day of January the Tax
Collector shall deliver or mail to the last known post office
address of each delinquent taxpayer on account of his assess-
ment and the taxes and interest due thereon with a notice to
said delinquent thereto attached that unless payment thereof
be made in full on or before July 1 next after the delivery
of said notice that the same will be collected by process of law;
and it shall be the duty of the Tax Collector to enforce the
payment of all taxes remaining" unpaid on the first day of
July next after the delivery of said notice by sale of either
real or personal property in the manner prescribed in sub-
sections (a) and (b) of this section, hereinafter set forth, or
such other mode for the collection of the same as may be au-
thorized by other sections of the Charter of Snow Hill or as
the Mayor and Council may adopt by ordinance.

(a) Whenever it becomes necessary for said Tax Collector
to enforce the payment of taxes by a sale of real property, he
shall advertise such real property, or any part thereof, once
a week for four successive weeks in one newspaper published in
Snow Hill, or if there is no newspaper published in Snow Hill,
then in one newspaper published in Worcester County, and
by notice set up at the Court House door in Snow Hill, and
any advertised notice of sale under this Act shall be deemed
sufficient if it contains the time, place and terms of such sale,
the year or years for which the taxes are due, to whom the
property is assessed, a brief description of the location of the
property, the approximate quantity offered for sale Or such
other description as shall be sufficient to identify said property,
and in no case shall a description by metes and bounds, courses
and distances, be required unless it shall be necessary for the
identification of such part of real estate as may be sold under
a division, and no levy upon land shall be required when the
same is sold by the Tax Collector by virtue of the provisions
of this Act and no notice or notices other than those provided
for in this Act shall be necessary or required to make valid
any sale herein authorized to be made, and when any real
estate shall be sold under this Act for taxes, the sale, together
with the proceedings had in relation thereto, shall be reported
to the Circuit Court for Worcester County by the Tax Col-
lector, and if, upon the report the Court shall find that the
provisions of this Act in relation thereto have been complied
with, the Court shall pass an order nisi giving three weeks'
notice, naming all persons interested in the property sold to