1938 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 661

thereon, to date of sale, and shall notify the person or persons
or body corporate by mail to their last known post office
address or to the address shown by the assessment books of
the county, that if said tax or taxes are not paid on or before
the second Monday in October next ensuing, together with the
interest accrued thereon, and the [proper costs] actual cost
to the treasurer of advertising herein required, [not to exceed
the sum of $2. 00 in any case, ] he will proceed at ten o'clock
A. M., on the second Monday in October at the Court House
in said County, to offer each and every of said parcels of land
and premises, as well as personal property, if the assessment
be only upon personal property, for sale to the highest bidder
for cash, which notice shall be deposited in the mail not later
than by the expiration of the 31st day of July of each year;
and which list and notice shall be published in [at least] two
newspapers of general paid circulation printed and published
in said County for four successive weeks prior to the second
Monday in [September] October. On the said second Monday
in October the treasurer shall at the hour and place named
in said advertisement proceed to sell any and all such pieces
or parcels of land and premises, or personal property, begin-
ning with the first on said list and so on in order upon which
taxes, interest and said advertising charge shall not then have
been paid, and shall continue such sale on each succeeding day,
Sundays and legal holidays excepted, from ten o'clock A. M.
to three o'clock P. M., until every parcel shall have been offered.
Should the treasurer, by reason of illness or other disability,
be unable to attend or conduct such sale or sales in person, a
deputy shall conduct such sale or sales, and in such cases the
deputy shall make the affidavit to the report of sale provided
for in Section 582 or other law under which sale may be made.
And in the case of a sale of personal property only, the pur-
chaser or purchasers of the articles sold shall have a good title
to the same, provided, however, that the treasurer shall have
no liability to the purchaser for any defects of title due to
defective tax sale proceedings or any other reason, and the
treasurer shall deliver the said personal property to said pur-
chaser or purchasers upon payment of the full amount of the
sales price thereof if the treasurer have possession, but the
treasurer shall have no possession DUTY to obtain possession
of the personalty for himself or the purchaser, nor any lia-
bility to the purchaser if the latter is unable to obtain posses-
sion for any reason.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1951.

Approved April 30, 1951.