HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 515
CHAPTER 316.
(House Bill 577)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
478 of Article 13 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, title "Harford County", sub-title "Taxes and County
Treasurer", said amendments clarifying said section as to
the time for which property has to be advertised before sale
for taxes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 478 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, title "Harford County", sub-title "Taxes and Coun-
ty Treasurer", be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

478. On the first day of October in each year the Treasurer
shall make up a list of all delinquent taxpayers and the
amounts for which they are respectively in arrears, adding to
each bill one dollar for the cost of advertising same, and
publish the same once in each of two successive weeks before
the first Monday in November following, and if said taxes
and costs are unpaid on that day he shall immediately there-
after make up a list of all delinquents assessed with real
estate, giving the name of the persons assessed, with a brief
description of the property, the district of its location and
such references to conveyances as will render the same possible
of identification, together with the amounts of taxes due and
in arrears thereon, including all taxes on personal property
due from the owner of said real estate, with interest, cost and
expenses accrued and to accrue to day of sale, which said
expense shall include three dollars ('$3. 00) as attorney's fee
in each case where the description of the property is given
as hereinbefore set forth, and two dollars ($2. 00) as auc-
tioneer's fee for each property gold, with a notice appended
that if said taxes, interest, cost, expenses and fees are not
paid on or before the fourth Monday in December next en-
suing the Treasurer will proceed at 10 o'clock on that day at
the Court House door in said county to offer said property for
sale to the highest bidder for cash, which list and notice shall
be published at least three successive weeks prior to the
fourth Monday in December; and upon the fourth Mon-
day in December in each year the Treasurer shall proceed
to sell under the terms of said notice all property upon which
taxes, interest, costs, expenses and fees are in arrears, and
shall continue such sale from day to day on each secular day,
legal holidays excepted, from 10 o'clock A. M. to 3 o'clock