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tration and election matters in said county, in not more than three
newspapers to be selected by said County Commissioners, two of
which newspapers must represent the two opposing political parties
which at the last election before the making of such contracts polled
respectively the largest number of votes cast in said county; pro-
vided, said County Commissioners shall not allow as compensation
or consideration for publishing to be contracted for as aforesaid,
nor shall they levy or pay therefor an amount exceeding [in the
aggregate for] the standard legal rates charged by any such news-
papers [the sum of six hundred dollars in any one year]; and pro-
vided further, if the owners or publishers of one of such newspapers,
selected as aforesaid, 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 foe no other newspaper
published 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 pub-
lishing as aforesaid, the contact 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 judg-
ment of the said County Commissioners, in any year, two newspapers
published in said Charles County bona fide representing the two
opposing 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
newspapers published in staid county as they may select; and provided
further, if the owners or publishers of all the newspapers that may
be published in said Charles County shall refuse, in any year, to
enter into contract with the said County Commissioners for publish-
ing as herein provided, then the said County Commissioners may
make such publication of matters required by law to be published 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 imme-
diately 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 not more than three newspapers of general circulation published
in Charles County; and if the amounts so due and in arrears are not
paid on or before the first day of April next succeeding the publica-
tion of said delinquent list, he shall proceed to advertise and sell all of
such property as hereinafter set forth. The said advertisements shall
be inserted in not more than three newspapers of general circulation
published in Charles County, to foe designated by the County Com-
missioners, the fees for advertising same to be as follows: For adver-
tising the list of delinquent taxpayers, twenty-five cents for each
name in each paper that they shall be advertised; for advertising
said sales, [one dollar] two dollars for each delinquent in each paper
in Which they shall foe advertised; and the advertisement of sale shall
contain the name of the person, persons, or corporations assessed,
the property upon which the taxes are due and in arrear, with a