426                               Laws of Maryland                        [Ch. 328

brief description of the property, its general location, and such ref-
erence to the title records in the clerk's office as to render same easy
of identification, the amount of taxes due and in arrear thereon,
together with the interest, costs and expenses accrued and to accrue
thereon on the day of sale, to which general list of items shall be
appended a notice that if such taxes are not paid on or before a day
to be named therein, not less than twenty-five nor more than thirty
days from the date of the first advertisement, together with the
accrued interest thereon and proportionate cost of advertising fees,
the treasurer shall proceed at 10 o'clock A. M. on the day named, at
the courthouse door in said county, to offer each and every parcel of
land, premises and other property for sale to the highest bidder for
cash. The said notice shall be published in not less than four weekly
insertions in each of the newspapers hereinbefore referred to, and
on the said day, at the time named, the treasurer shall proceed to
sell any and all such parcels of land, premises and personal property
on which taxes, interest, costs and fees shall not have been paid, and
to continue said sale each day (legal holidays excepted), from 10
o'clock A. M. until 3 o'clock P. M., until every such parcel of land,
premises and personal property or more than a sufficient quantity
to pay all taxes, costs and expenses for each case shall have been
offered for sale. In case for any piece of property there shall not be
a sufficient bid to cover the taxes, interests, costs and expenses the
same shall be bid in by the County Commissioners, the same to be
reported, as in other cases, as land sold for taxes, and at the expira-
tion of the time limited for redemption, shall pass to the county, to
become absolutely the property of the county, subject to be sold
thereafter by the County Commissioners at public sale in substan-
tially like manner as property is sold under the Public General Laws
of this State by mortgagee or attorney for mortgagee, under the
power of sale inserted therein. The County Treasurer shall not be
allowed any expenditures for attorney's fees, but it shall be the duty
of the attorney to the County Commissioners to advise him and act
as attorney for him in all of his official work requiring the advice
or services of an attorney for him as treasurer, and no compensation
shall be charged, allowed or paid to any paper other than is desig-
nated by the County Commissioners as hereinbefore set forth; pro-
vided, however, that all advertising to be done under this Act shall
be inserted in not more than three newspapers published in Charles
County, two of which represent the two political parties which at
last election preceding the insertion thereof polled respectively the
largest number of votes cast in said county, and provided, further,
that in case of controversy as to what newspaper in good faith repre-
sents either of the leading political parties that paper shall be named
which may be designated by the central committee representing the
party in which such controversy may arise. The said treasurer shall
immediately after the making of the levy, in each year after the
passage of this Act, publish for two successive weeks in not more
than three newspapers a short notice informing the public generally,
that if taxes are paid on or before the first day of September next
succeeding the date of such notice there will be allowed a deduction
of three per centum from the amount of said taxes; and that on all
taxes not paid on or before the 1st day of September in each year,
interest at the rate of six per centum per annum will be charged.
And the said treasurer shall immediately after the first day of Janu-
ary in each year, give a second notice, published as aforesaid, notify-