992 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 473

accrued and 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 interest 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, prem-
ises 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 herein-
before 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 personal 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 expens-
es 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, interests, 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 inserted 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 Commis-
sioners 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, however, 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 inser-
tion thereof polled respectively 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