THEODORE R. McKELDIN, GOVERNOR                   197

Monday in August in each year. After being levied for the collection
of taxes so levied, from which time said taxes shall draw six per cent,
interest, the Commissioners shall annually appoint a collector of
taxes within the corporate limits of said town, who may be the
bailiff of said town, on or before the second Monday of July in each
year, and the said collector shall within ten days after his appoint-
ment, give bond to the State of Maryland in double the amount of
taxes to be collected and conditioned upon the faithful performance
of the trust reposed in him as collector, with sureties to be approved
by the Commissioners, and on failure to give bond within the time
specified, the Commissioners shall appoint another person as collector.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the effectiveness of this
Act shall be subject to the requirement of Section 5 of Article HE
of the Constitution of Maryland that no such local laws shall become
effective in regard to a municipal corporation until and unless it
shall have been approved at a regular or special municipal election
by a majority of the voters of that municipal corporation voting on
the question.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby declared
to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate preser-
vation of the public health and safety and having been passed by a
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 March 24,1955.

CHAPTER 136
(House Bill 362)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 75 (c) of
Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition),
title "Revenue and Taxes", sub-title "Tax Sales", relating to the
cost and publishing of notices of tax sales in Charles County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 75 (c) of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition), title "Revenue and Taxes", sub-title "Tax Sales", be
and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

75.

(c) In Charles County the cost of publishing in any one newspaper
the advertisement for the tax sale of any one tract or lot of which
is owned by the same tax delinquent or delinquents shall not exceed
the sum of $2.00 , which sum of money shall be charged against the

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