THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 705

CHAPTER 375
(House Bill 662)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, sub-
section (1) of Section 97, of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Prince George's County (1943 Edition), being
Article 17 of the Code of Public Laws of Maryland, title
"Prince George's County", sub-title "Bowie", providing
for the amount of taxes to be levied for any one year
upon the assessable property within said Corporation.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sub-section (1) of Section 97, of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Prince George's County (1943
Edition), being Article 17 of the Code of Public Laws of
Maryland, title, "Prince George's County", sub-title
"Bowie", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, and to read as follows:

97 (1) The said Commissioners are authorized and em-
powered to levy annually such taxes upon the assessable
property within said corporation as may seem to them
necessary, provided, that the amount of taxes levied for
any one year shall not exceed [thirty] sixty cents on the
One Hundred Dollars, which taxes shall be collected by the
town treasurer; the levy shall be made on or before the
first day of June each year, and all taxes so levied shall be
a lien on any and all property of the person against whom
they may be levied. All taxes are due and payable the first
day of July in each and every year, and if not paid on or
before the first day of September shall bear interest at the
rate of one per centum per month until paid, and if not
paid on or before the first day of January next following,
the treasurer shall make up a list of the unpaid taxes, and
shall advertise the same in some newspaper published in the
Town of Bowie, if there be such a newspaper, and if there
be no such newspaper, then in any other newspaper pub-
lished in Prince George's County, once in each of three suc-
cessive weeks, and give notice in said advertisement that
on a day to be named therein not later than one month from
the date of the first insertion therein, he will sell the prop-

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EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.
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