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and the State Treasurer may cause suit to be
brought on the bond given for State Tax, to the
next term of the Circuit Court thereafter, and the
said Court is hereby authorised upon motion of
the Attorney of said Commissioners or the Attor-
ney of the State Treasurer, after notice to said
collectors and their sureties, to take judgments for
such amounts as may be found to be due by them
for the non-payment or settlement of said taxes.
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Duty of Col-
lectors before
proceeding to
sell.
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SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That whenever
the collectors aforesaid shall find it necessary to
proceed to enforce the collection of State and
County Taxes, they shall first leave with the tax
payer, his, her or their agent, tenant or occupant
of the premises, or at his, her or their usual place
of abode, the tax bill or bills showing the aggre-
gate amount of assessments, and levy for such
taxes as may be owing by the party with a notice
to said bill annexed, that unless the said bills are
paid within five days thereafter, the said collector
will proceed to enforce collection thereof according
to law, after which if the tax payer aforesaid shall
fail to make payment, the said collector is hereby
authorised to levy upon either the real or person-
al property of the party neglecting to pay, and
to expose the same at public sale, after ten days
public notice of time, place, and cause of such
sale, by advertisement in at least one newspaper
published in Baltimore county, also by handbills
posted at least at two public places in the neigh-
borhood of the said property, and the said collec-
tor shall then and there proceed to sell said pro-
perty for cash to the highest bidder, and shall be
entitled to retain out of the proceeds of such sale
the amount of taxes, together with all costs in-
curred by said collector in making said levy and
sale, and should the proceeds of such sale exceed
the amount of taxes due and costs incurred, then
the said collector shall pay over such excess to
the owner of the property so sold, and shall exe-
cute and deliver to the purchaser, (should the
property sold be real estate,) a good and sufficient
deed therefor.
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May redeem
within two
years.
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SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That in all cases of the
sale of real estate under the provisions of this act
the party owning the same prior to the sale shall
be and they are hereby authorised to redeem the
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