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adoption of this Charter. Said list shall set out respective-
ly 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 taxes,
interest, penalties and costs for which the same is liable;
and a reference to the subdivision, if any, in which said
real estate is situated. Said reference shall be sufficient if
made by using the last initials of the subdividers and the
abbreviations of the subdivision. The amount of said taxes
and interest, penalties 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
"$3. 50. " The said Treasurer shall publish said list in some
newspaper published in Prince George's County, Maryland,
once a week for three successive weeks, prior to the first
Monday in April of each year real estate is advertised to
be sold for such taxes. Each piece of real estate so adver-
tised for sale shall bear a charge of Twenty-five Cents
($. 25) to cover the costs of verifying the name or names,
or the owner or owners, of such real estate, provided that
where more than two pieces of real estate are owned by the
same owners, there shall be one charge of Seventy Cents
($. 70), and when real estate has been sold under this Act
and has not been redeemed before the issuance of the order
of publication hereinafter provided, there shall be an ad-
ditional Seventy Cents ($. 70) charged to each piece of
real estate so sold and unredeemed, provided, that where
two or more pieces of real estate are owned by same owner
or owners, there shall be but one charge of Seventy Cents
($. 70) upon such pieces of real estate, and these charges
shall be included in the report of sale of the Treasurer of
the Town of District Heights as a charge upon such real
estate.

The said Treasurer, at the time fixed in the advertise-
ment of tax sale hereinabove referred to, shall attend at
the intersection of Marlboro Pike and Washington Boule-
vard in the Town of District Heights, and offer for sale
all real estate so advertised to the highest bidder, commenc-
ing with the first piece of real estate listed in said adver-
tisement and continuing to conduct said sale until all of
the 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.