880                               LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 532

for publishing, for the period of one year from the first day of July
in the year in which said contract shall be made, all matters required
by law to be published by said County Commissioners, except such
matters relating to the registering of voters and to elections, as may
be required by law to be published by the Supervisors of Elections of
said county, or such other registration and election officials as may
be charged with the duty of publishing such registration and elec-
tion matters in said county, in [two] not more than three newspapers
to be selected by said County Commissioners, [and in not more than
two published in said Charles County, bona fide representing] two
of which newspapers must represent the two opposing political par-
ties which at the last election before the making of such contracts
polled respectively the largest number of votes cast in said county;
provided, said County Commissioners shall not allow as compensa-
tion or consideration for publishing to be contracted for as afore-
said, nor shall they levy or pay therefor an amount exceeding in
the aggregate for [both] any such newspapers the sum of six
hundred dollars in any one year; and provided further, if the
owners or publishers of one of such newspapers, selected as afore-
said, shall fail or refuse, after reasonable notice, to enter into a
contract for such publishing as may be required of them under the
provisions of this Act, then if there be no other newspaper pub-
lished in said Charles County bona fide representing the political
party of the newspaper whose owners or publishers shall have failed
or refused to enter into contract for publishing as aforesaid, whose
owners or publishers shall be willing to enter into contract for
publishing as aforesaid, the contract shall be made for publishing as
aforesaid in the one newspaper whose owners and publishers shall be
willing to enter into the contract; or if there be not, in the judgment
of the said County Commissioners, in any year, two newspapers
published in said Charles County bona fide representing the two op-
posing political parties which at the last election before the making
of such contract or contracts polled, respectively, the largest number
of votes in said county, the County Commissioners may contract for
publishing as aforesaid with the owners and publishers of such [one
or two] newspapers published in said county as they may select;
and provided further, if the owners or publishers of all the news-
papers that may be published in said Charles County shall refuse, in
any year, to enter into contract with the said County Commissioners
for publishing as herein provided, then the said County Commission-
ers may make such publication of matters required by law to be pub-
lished by them as in their judgment may best subserve the public
interest.

93. for the collection of all taxes for State or county purposes
that may be due at the time of the passage of this Act, the said
treasurer shall proceed as required by Section 9 of Chapter 509 of
the Acts of 1908. for all taxes which are levied after the passage of
this Act, and that are due and in arrear, the treasurer shall im-
mediately after the first day of February in each year, make up a
list of all delinquent taxpayers, and the amount for which they are
respectively in arrears, and publish the same in one week's edition
in [two] not more than three newspapers of general circulation
published in Charles County; and if the amounts so due and in ar-
rears are not paid on or before the first day of April next succeed-
ing the publication of said delinquent list, he shall proceed to ad-
vertise and sell all of such property as hereinafter set forth. The