554 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 534

at their regular meeting on the first Monday in August,
or as soon thereafter as practicable. Such taxes shall
become due and payable on the first day of October next
succeeding such levy and all taxes remaining unpaid
after that date shall bear interest at the rate of six per
centum per annum. Not later than September 15th next
succeeding such levy, the Commissioners shall cause to be
made out and delivered to the Bailiff an alphabetical list
of the tax payers in said Town, together with the respec-
tive sums to be collected from such persons. The Bailiff
shall forthwith make diligent efforts to collect the said
taxes/and unless the same, together with accrued interest,
shall be paid to the Bailiff on or before January first next
succeeding the date of such levy, then the Bailiff shall seize
goods, chattels lands and tenements of any person refus-
ing or neglecting to pay the same, and after giving at least
twenty days' notice of the time and place of sale by written
or printed hand-bills set up in five public places in said
Town, and printed at least three times in some newspaper
published in said Wicomico County, he shall sell the prop-
erty so seized, at public auction to the highest bidder, or
so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the said
taxes, accrued interest and all costs of such advertise-
ment and sale, including a fee of Three Dollars ($3. 00) to
such Bailiff; and unless said taxes, accrued interest and
all such costs shall be paid the said Bailiff within thirty
days after the date of such sale, the Bailiff shall thereafter
transfer and convey said seized property to any pur-
chaser thereof by good and sufficient title papers forever
and in fee simple.

SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That the said Com-
missioners shall not expend nor contract to 'expend in any
one year more money than the amount receivable by the
Town from taxes and other sources for that year.

SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect on June 1, 1945.

Approved April 5, 1945.

CHAPTER 534.
(Senate Bill 357)

AN ACT to authorize the establishment of a Sinking Fund
for the retirement of "Improvement and Extension"
bonds issued by the Town of Berlin.