624 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 572

If necessary to properly describe the property, the Collector
shall procure a description and plat of the same from the Coun-
ty or City Surveyor, for which the sum of f 7. 50 shall be added
to the total charges due on the property. If it is necessary
to procure a description from the County or City Surveyor,
the said description shall be kept among the records of the
Collector's office and the published notice of sale shall con-
tain a statement to the effect that a detailed description of the
property to be sold, as prepared by the County or City Sur-
veyor, is on file at the Collector's office may be examined by
anyone interested therein.

(5) -The assessed value of the property as determined by last
assessment.

Failure of the Collector to include any taxes in the pub-
lished notice of sale shall in no way affect the validity or col-
lectibility of the said taxes, except such as are required to be
but have not been certified as provided in Section 74, or the
validity of any sale made hereunder to enforce the payment
of taxes, nor prevent nor stay proceedings under this sub-
title nor affect the title of any purchaser.

The expense of publication of all notices relating to the sale,
the cost of the County or City Surveyor's description and plat,
if necessary, the auctioneer's fee for making the sale, which
said auctioneer's fee in no case shall exceed Two Dollars for
each property sold; and in Baltimore County where provision
has been hereinbefore made for the posting of the premises to
to be sold, there shall be allowed a sum not in excess of $7. 50
for said service, and the expenses of conducting the sale shall
be liens on the property to be sold.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety and having
been passed upon by yea and nay vote, supported by three-
fifths of all the members -elected to each of the two Houses of
the General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1945.

CHAPTER 572.
(House Bill 482)

AN ACT to repeal Section 1282 of the Prince George's County
Code (1943 Edition, being Article 17 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland), title "Prince George's County",