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title "County Treasurer", relating to the advertisement of
tax sales in said county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 368 of Article 17 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (Flack—1930 Edition), title "Prince
George's County", sub-title "County Treasurer", be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments to read as
follows:

368. All tax sales of real estate shall be advertised for four
consecutive issues, any other provisions in any of the local
laws relating to tax sales in Prince George's County to the
contrary notwithstanding, in three newspapers published in
Prince George's County, to be selected by the Treasurer; pro-
vided that the newspapers so selected shall have been estab-
ised in their respective towns at least two years preceding the
date of the first publication of said advertisement; and the
cost of such advertisement in and for each newspaper shall not
exceed the sum of one dollar and thirty cents for a tax sale,
which sum of money shall be charged against the property
offered for sale as items of cost after six o'clock P. M. on
the Saturday next preceding the date of the issue of said
newspapers in which said advertisement shall first appear.
The Treasurer shall deliver the copy of said advertisement
to the publishers of said newspapers not later than ten
o'clock A. M. on the Monday of the week in which the first
publication of said tax sale advertisement shall appear. A tax
sale shall consist of all the real estate in any election district
of the county advertised for sale and belonging to the same
person. In the matter of the sale of personal property for
taxes, the Treasurer shall be allowed costs similar to those
allowed by law in the cases of seizure and sale of personal
property by distraint, except he shall receive no fee or com-
mission therein.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1st, 1939.

Approved May 3, 1939.

CHAPTER 265.
(House Bill 492)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 17 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1935 Supplement), title "Clerks of
Courts", sub-title "Clerks of Circuit Courts", said new sec-