66 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 43

to accrue thereon on the day of sale, to which general list
of items shall be appended a notice that if such taxes are
not paid on or before a day to be named therein, not less
than twenty-five nor more than thirty days from the date
of the first advertisement, together with the accrued in-
terest thereon and proportionate cost of advertising fees,
the treasurer shall proceed at 10 o'clock A. M. on a day
named, at the courthouse door in said county, to offer each
and every parcel of land, premises and other property for
sale to the highest bidder for cash. The said notice shall
be published in not less than four weekly insertions in
each of the newspapers hereinbefore referred to, and on
the said day, at the time named, the treasurer shall proceed
to sell any and all such parcels of land, premises and per-
sonal property on which taxes, interest, costs and fees shall
not have been paid, and to continue said sale each day
(legal holidays excepted), from 10 o'clock A. M. until 3
o'clock P. M., until every such parcel of land, premises and
personal property or more than a sufficient quantity to
pay all taxes, costs and expenses for each case shall have
been offered for sale. In case for any piece of property
there shall not be a sufficient bid to cover the taxes, in-
terests, costs and expenses, the same shall be bid in by the
County Commissioners, the same to be reported, as in
other cases, as land sold for taxes, and at the expiration
of the time limited for redemption, shall pass to the county,
to become absolutely the property of the county, subject
to be sold thereafter by the County Commissioners at
public sale in substantially like manner as property is sold
under the Public General Laws of this State by mortgagee
or attorney for mortgagee, under the power of sale in-
serted therein. The County Treasurer shall not be allowed
any expenditures for attorney's fees, but it shall be the
duty of the attorney to the County Commissioners to advise
him and act as attorney for him in all of his official work
requiring the advice or services of an attorney for him as
treasurer, and no compensation shall be charged, allowed
or paid to any paper other than is designated by the County
Commissioners as hereinbefore set forth; provided, how-
ever, that all advertising to be done under this Act shall
be inserted in two newspapers printed in Charles County,
bona fide representing the two political parties which at
last election preceding the insertion thereof polled respec-
tively the largest number of votes cast in said county, and
provided further, that in case of controversy as to what
newspaper in good faith represents either of the leading
political parties that paper shall be named which may be