ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR, 659

States mails, postage prepaid, addressed to the person or one of
them chargeable with the taxes at his ordinary post office
address for the receipt of mail, in a sealed envelope with the
return address of the Collector on the outside, provided that if
such person resides in Baltimore City it shall be to the address
as it appears upon the records of the City Collector, and in the
absence of his address on his records, then as it shall appear
by the last published Baltimore City Directory or telephone
directory, or if not contained in such directory then to the ad-
dress of the property for delivery to the occupant thereof, such
mailing by the County or City Collector shall be prima facie
to be served if the same is so deposited in the mails and is not
returnable as undelivered, and the said collector for the pur-
pose of preserving a record of the service of such notice by
mail shall note in a book the date of placing in the mails by
envelope containing such bill and notice,

72. After the proceeding required by Section 70 or 71
shall have been had, if any taxes or assessment for state
and/or county or Baltimore City purposes of any nature or
kind whatsoever, levied or charged against any part or parcel
of ground, improved or unimproved, held in freehold or by
lease, shall not be paid within the thirty-day period after
the service of notice required by Section 70 or 71, the Col-
lector shall proceed within six months from the service of
said notice to enforce payment of the same by distraint,
levy or execution upon said parcel of land of the party
failing to pay, such levy, distraint or execution to be made
upon the premises and notice thereof to be given with a state-
ment attached, showing all taxes due, interest, penalties and
costs, including that of the levy, to the person so in arrears, or
one of them, if more than one, if in possession of the property,
otherwise to be conspicuously posted on the premises so to be
sold for taxes. There shall be incorporated in said notice a
warning that if the statement for taxes, interest, penalties and
costs be not paid within thirty days, the property levied upon
will be sold at public sale, and the Collector is hereby author-
ized to expose any property so levied upon at public sale at
the expiration of said thirty days after having given, in Balti-
more City, notice of the time and place of sale by advertise-
ment once a week for four successive weeks in at least two of
the daily newspapers published in Baltimore City, and in the
counties, notice of the time and place of sale (which place of
sale in the counties shall be at the court-house door) by adver-