54 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [ CH. 35

event before the first day of April, on the assessable prop-
erty of said town, a sum sufficient to meet the current
expenses of that year including also the maturing obli-
gations on account of water, street improvement or other
bonds or indebtedness, and such taxes, when levied, shall
be a lien upon the property assessed and shall be collected
in the following manner, to wit: On the first day of Octo-
ber next succeeding each levy, taxes shall be deemed to be
in arrears and interest shall be deemed to be in arrears and
interest shall be charged and collected as hereinafter pro-
vided, and within twenty days after the first day of
October the Tax Collector shall deliver or mail to the
last known post office address of each delinquent taxpayer
an account of his assessment and the taxes and in-
terest due thereon with a notice to said delinquent thereto
attached that unless payment thereof be made in full on
or before July 1 next after the delivery of said notice that
the same will be collected by process of law; and it shall
be the duty of the Tax Collector to enforce the payment
of all taxes remaining unpaid on the first day of July next
after the delivery of said notice by sale of either real or
personal property in the manner prescribed in subsec-
tions (a) and (b) of this section, hereinafter set forth,
or such other mode for the collection of the same as may
be authorized by other sections of the Charter of Snow
Hill or as the Mayor and Council may adopt by ordinance.

(a) Whenever it becomes necessary for said Tax Col-
lector to enforce the payment of taxes by a sale of real
property, he shall advertise such real property, or any
part thereof, once a week for four successive weeks in one
newspaper published in Snow Hill, or if there is no news-
paper published in Snow Hill, then in one newspaper pub-
lished in Worcester County, and by notice set up at the
Court House door in Snow Hill, and any advertised notice
of sale under this Act shall be deemed sufficient if it con-
tains the time, place and terms of such sale, the year or
years for which the taxes are due, to whom the property
is assessed, a brief description of the location of the prop-
erty, the approximate quantity offered for sale or such
other description as shall be sufficient to identify said
property, and in no case shall a description by metes and
bounds, courses and distances, be required unless it shall
be necessary for the identification of such part of real
estate as may be sold under a division, and no levy upon
land shall be required when the same is sold by the Tax
Collector by virtue of the provisions of this Act and no
notice or notices other than those provided for in this Act
shall be necessary or required to make valid any sale herein