128 LAWS OP MARYLAND. [CH. 27

and provide a space for the interest and penalty, shall make
the proper and necessary entries on all bills sent out, and
shall collect the amounts notedv thereon with the State and
county taxes.

Said benefit charges and taxes shall, for all purposes of
collection, be treated as county taxes, shall bear the same
interest, be subject to the same penalties and advertised in
the same manner as, and with county taxes, and all prop-
erty subject to said benefit charges and taxes, if not paid
before the annual tax sale, shall be sold for the same at the
same time and in the same manner as said properties are
sold for county taxes, and all of the law relating to the
collection of county taxes, so far as the same is applicable,
shall relate to the collection of said benefit charges and
taxes. No property shall be redeemed from county tax
sale, and no property sold by the County Commissioners
after a final tax sale, shall be redeemed or sold except upon
the payment of said benefit charges and taxes. The said
Treasurer shall pay to the said County Commissioners, act-
ing as District Council for the respective districts created
by this Act, on or before the 10th day of every month, the
amount of said benefit charges and taxes collected for each
district by him to and inclusive of the last day of the pre-
ceding month, and upon the failure of said Treasurer to
pay over said money as above directed, the amount in his
hands due said Commissioners shall bear a penalty of one
per centum per month for which the Treasurer shall be
personally liable.

Upon the expiration of the term of the present treasurer
of Anne Arundel County, the County Commissioners of
said county are hereby directed to require the bonds of
county treasurers to be conditioned upon the payment to
said County Commissioners, acting as District Council for
the districts created by this Act, of the amounts of money
collected for it, in addition to the present requirements of
said bonds.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
hereby be declared to be an emergency law and necessary
for the immediate preservation of the public health and
safety, and being passed upon by a yea and nay vote sup-
ported by three-fifths of all the members elected to each of
the two Houses of the General Assembly the same shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved December 15, 1933.