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so assessed, the election district wherein situated, and the
street number if located in a town or city. In no case shall a
description by the metes and bounds be required and no notice
or notices other than those provided for in this section shall
be necessary to the validity of any such tax sale. In order to
reduce the expense of advertising the County Treasurer shall
include the notices of tax sales in one advertisement whenever
he shall be proceeding with the sale of more than one lot or
parcel of land or with the sale of land assessed to more than
one delinquent. The costs of publishing such an advertisement
shall be equally distributed among the several tracts or lots
of land therein named, and the amount thereby apportioned to
each tract of land shall be added to the sum for which such
tract or lot is sold, and the same shall be paid from the pro-
ceeds thereof by the Treasurer, except that, when any tract or
lot, sold at such a tax sale, is purchased by the County Com-
missioners, the sum due for such publication shall be paid out
of the general county funds. In no case shall the cost of
publishing, in any one newspaper, the advertisement for the
tax sale of any one tract or lot all of which is owned by the
same tax delinquent or delinquents exceed the sum of Two
Dollars and Fifty Cents.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1943.

Approved March 29, 1943.

CHAPTER 247.
(House Bill 417)

AN ACT to ratify, confirm and validate the purchase by, and
the grant and deed to The Commissioners of Queenstown, a
municipal corporation, from The Queenstown Community
Club, a body corporate, of the "Queen Theatre Property"
located in the town of Queenstown, Queen Anne's County,
Maryland, on the west side of Main Street, bounded by the
Methodist Church Property on the north, the property of
Annie Morris on the south and the property of John and
Jesse Bishop on the west, and to authorize and empower
The Commissioners of Queenstown, a municipal corpora-
tion, to sell, dispose of, grant, convey and deed said "Queen
Theatre Property" at such time and for such consideration
as in the discretion of said municipality may seem proper,
and to authorize and empower said municipality to apply
the proceeds of such sale to the payment of the water bonds;
issued by said municipality.