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WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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1840.
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county are or may become charged for the payment of
county taxes, and the collector of the tax for said county
can find no personal property in said county liable lor, or
chargeable with the payment of the same, the said collec-
tor shall, and is hereby directed and required, to return to
the commissioners for Allegany county, at their annual
meeting, in the month of February, or at any adjourned
stated or other meeting, which said commissioners, or a
majority of them, may order to be held for the purpose,
previous to the first day of March, annually, a list or state-
ment of all such lands, (designating each tract or parcel
by its name, and each lot by its number, ) and the amount
of the tax thereon respectively due, together with the
name or names of the owner or owners thereof, or the per-
son or persons, corporation or corporations, respectively,
chargeable with the payment of the same.
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CHAP. 234.
With amount
of tax thereon.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That after the return of said
list or statement, the said commissioners, or a majority of
them, shall thereupon, by an order to be passed at the same
meeting to which such return is made, cause, the said col-
lector to have inserted in one or more newspapers, publish-
ed in the town of Cumberland, and two other newspapers,
one published in the city of Baltimore, in this State, and
the other in the city of Washington, in the District of Co-
lumbia, at least once a week, lor four successive weeks,
previous to the first day of June, in each year, an adver-
tisement, embracing the contents of the list of statement so
returned, with the addition thereto of the number of acres
supposed to be contained in each1 tract, lot or parcel of
land, and giving notice that, unless the county taxes, toge-
ther with the cost of advertising, respectively, due on said
lands, shall he paid to the said collector or to his agent, (to
be herein named, ) in the city of Baltimore, on or before
the first day of June, next ensuing, the said lands, or such
parts or parcels thereof, as the said collector may adjudge
sufficient for the pay ment of the taxes and costs due there-
on, will be sold at public auction, to the highest bidder, for
the payment of the same.
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Notice to be
given.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That at the first, or any other
meeting, which the said commissioners, or a majority of
them, may order to be held for the purpose, after the first
day of June in every year, it shall be the duly of the said
collector, and he is hereby directed and required, to make
out and submit to the said commissioners a statement or an
account of all monies received, if any, by him or his
agents in payment of the taxes and costs, respectively, due
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Collector to re-
port amount of
money received.
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