HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1673

All taxes shall be paid to said clerk. All taxes
levied against real and personal property, in said town
which are not paid on or before the thirty-first day of
December in the year of their levy shall be in default and
deemed in arrear, and it shall then be the duty of the
clerk to advertise all such real property for public
sale on the second Saturday in February of the year suc-
ceeding the year for which said taxes remain unpaid by
advertisement in a weekly newspaper published in Queen
Anne's County, at least three weeks before the day of sale,
which advertisement shall state the day of sale, the name
of the party in which the property is assessed, if known,
the amount of taxes, with interest and costs, and also a
description of the property sufficient to identify the same.
Said sale shall be held at some public place in said town
named in said advertisement and shall commence at ten
o'clock A. M., and shall continue until all property adver-
tised shall be sold. The terms of each sale shall be cash.
All purchase money for said property not paid on day of
sale shall bear interest at the rate of twelve per cent, per
annum from the day of sale until paid.

All property which may be sold for taxes may be re-
deemed by the owner within one year and one day from
day of sale upon the payment by the owner of the taxes
due at time of sale, costs of sale, and interest from day of
sale at the rate of fifteen per cent, per annum.

If the property so sold shall not be redeemed as above
set forth, the clerk of the town shall, when re-
quired and upon full payment of the purchase money and
all costs and interest execute a deed for the same to the
purchaser.

The power to convey hereby given is hereby also con-
ferred upon the successor or successors in office of the
clerk making the sale. Where taxes on both real and per-
sonal property are in arrear and said real and personal
property are owned by the same person, the real property
shall be sold for taxes due by said owner or his personal
property as well as on his real property. Power is hereby
given the clerk to levy upon any personal property upon
which taxes may be due and in arrears.

Whenever there shall be default in the payment of taxes
on personal property, and the clerk shall have levied upon
the same for non-payment of said taxes, the clerk is author-
ized to sell said property at public sale after he shall have
given notice by advertisement published once a week for
two successive weeks prior to the day of sale, in some
newspaper published in Queen Anne's County.