578                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                  [CH. 207

the other to be known as Section 9 OB, authorizing the
County Commissioners of Calvert County to purchase any
property offered at tax sale and empowering them to sell and
convey or lease the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 89 and 90 of Article 5 of the Code of
Public Local Laws, of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Cal-
vert County, " sub-title "County Treasurer, " be and they are
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

89.    The County Commissioners shall provide and furnish
the treasurer an office in the courthouse building or in some
other building as near thereto as possible, and it shall be the
duty of the treasurer to keep his said office open from nine
o'clock in the forenoon to three o'clock in the afternoon
every day except Sundays and legal holidays, and he shall
attend for the transaction of business therein in person or by
deputy; it shall be his duty also to attend in person or by
deputy to collect and receive taxes at least once in each three
months in each election district at such times and places as
he may designate, of which at least ten days' notice shall be
given by publication in a newspaper or newspapers and by
handbills posted in the respective districts at the expense of
the county, not to exceed, however, the sum of twenty-five dol-
lars, and the said treasurer may appoint a deputy who shall
receive for his services as deputy treasurer such compensation
as the treasurer may see fit to allow to be paid, however, out
of the salary herein allowed the said treasurer, and the treas-
urer shall be responsible for all acts of his deputy touching
the matter pertaining to his office.

90.    It shall be the duty of the clerk of the said County Com-
missioners within ten days after the annual tax levy shall have
been made, to deliver to the treasurer a fair copy of the assess-
ment lists of said county showing the aggregate assessment of
every person, corporate institution or set of persons, as the same
then appears on the assessment books of said county, with the
names of said owners arranged according to election districts,
and alphabetically for each district, and also to deliver to said
treasurer a certified copy of the rule or resolution of said Com-
missioners making said tax levy, and also to deliver to said
treasurer a certified copy of each item for which and each