846 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 389
CHAPTER 389.
(Senate Bill 258)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
84 of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1935 Supplement), title "Revenue and Taxes", sub-title
"Tax Sales", as said section was amended by Chapter
248 of the Acts of 1937, to restore the unintended omis-
sion relative to advertising tax sales in the several
counties.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 84 of Article 81 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1935 Supplement), title "Revenue and
Taxes", sub-title "Tax Sales", as said section was amended
by Chapter 248 of the Acts of 1937, be and it is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendments to read as follows:

84. At any time after any county, or the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore shall have acquired property
by conveyance from the Collector, the County Commis-
sioners or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the
latter acting through its Comptroller with the consent of
the Board of Finance Commissioners of Baltimore City,
may in their discretion either sell the said real estate at a
private sale to the next preceding former owner or other
person having previously had an interest in the property
either by way of absolute conveyance or mortgage includ-
ing former reversioners at and for the sales price equal
to the amount paid by said County Commissioners or the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for said property,
together with all subsequent taxes or public liens charged
against said property and interest on said total sum at the
rate of six per cent per annum accounting from the date
on which the purchase money was paid by said County
Commissioners or the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more to said collector, or in the alternative to such a pri-
vate sale to the former owner or other parties in interest
as above defined, shall after giving public notice by ad-
vertisement inserted once for three successive weeks in
some newspaper published in the county, and in Baltimore
City for three successive weeks in two newspapers pub-
lished in said City, offer the said real estate for sale at
public auction to the highest bidder for cash, provided no
public sale shall be for a less sum than the amount of the
taxes, together with all costs, charges and interest due and
chargeable thereon; and if for any real estate offered at
public sale there shall be no bid which seems adequate to