HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 623

for the procedure in Calvert and Prince George's Counties
for advertising tax sales and for the costs thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted Toy the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 93A of Article 5 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Calvert County7", sub-
title "County Treasurer", as said section was amended by
Chapter 246 of the Acts of 1943, be and it is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 77 of Arti-
cle 81 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1943 Supplement),
title "Revenue and Taxes", sub-title "Tax Sales", be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

77. (Notice by Advertising. Expenses of Sale A Lien on
Property. ) At any time after the expiration of thirty days
from the mailing of the statement and notice, the Collector
shall cause to be published, four times, once a week for four
successive weeks in one or more newspapers having a general
circulation in the county in which the property is located, a
notice that the property will, on a day and at the place named
in such notice, be sold at public auction; provided that in:
Prince George7s County such notice shall be published in three
newspapers at a price of One Dollar and Thirty Cents ($1. 30)
per item for each newspaper, which sum of money shall be,
charged against the property offered for sale as an item of
cost after six o7clock P. M. on the Saturday next preceding the
date of the issue of the said newspapers in which said adver-
tisement shall first appear and the Treasurer of said County
shall deliver the copy of said advertisement to the publishers
of said newspapers not later than ten o'clock A. M. on the
Monday of the week in which the first publication of said tax
sale advertisement shall appear. Provided further, that in
Calvert, County 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, shall
not exceed the sum of Three Dollars ($3. 00). Such notice
shall contain with substantial accuracy the following:

(1) A description of the property by giving the street num-
ber of the improvement and the frontage and depth of the lot,
as the same appears on the Collectors tax roll.

(2) The name of the person who last appears on the Col-
lector^ tax roll as owner of the same.

(3) The amount of all taxes due and unpaid on the property.

(4) If the property be unimproved, or has no street number,
the notice shall describe the same as it is described on the Col-
lector^ tax roll, and no unimproved property, or property hav-
ing no street number, need be described by metes and bounds.