J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                       185

being Article 8 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland),
title "Cecil County", sub-title "County Treasurer", amending the
local laws of Cecil County concerning the collection of taxes, with
particular reference to the publication of notice of tax sales.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 137 (b) of the Code of Public Local Laws of Cecil
County (1961 Edition, being Article 8 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland), title "Cecil County", sub-title "County Treas-
urer", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
to read as follows:

137.

(b) He shall also, immediately after the levy is made, make out
the bill of each taxpayer and upon application shall forward the bill
by mail or otherwise to the person, or his agent, to whom taxes have
been assessed. Immediately upon the first day of April in each and
every year, the Treasurer shall make an alphabetical list by election
districts, as now established by law, in their numerical order, of
taxes due and in arrears, which list shall contain the name or names
of the person or persons or body corporate assessed with property
upon which taxes are due and in arrears, a brief description of the
property, real and personal, and such references to conveyances or
other description as will, in the case of real estate, render the same
certain of identification, and the amount of the tax levied and in
arrears, with the interest and costs accrued, and to accrue thereon
to the day of sale, to which list shall be appended a notice that if
the said tax or taxes are not paid on or before the second Monday
in August next ensuing, together with the interest accrued thereon
and the proportional cost of advertising and fees, he will proceed at
10 o'clock A. M. on said second Monday in August, at the courthouse
in said county, to offer each and every said parcels of land and per-
sonal property as the case may be, for sale to the highest bidder for
cash, which said list and notice shall be published [in some news-
paper printed in said county for three successive weeks prior to the
second Monday in August] four times, once a week for four succes-
sive weeks prior to the second Monday in August in one or more
newspapers having a general circulation in said county, and on said
second Monday in August the treasurer shall, at the hour and
places named in said advertisement, proceed to sell any and all such
pieces or parcels of land and all such personal property, beginning
with the first on said list, and so on in order, upon which the taxes,
interest, costs and fees shall not then have been paid, and shall con-
tinue such sales for each secular day, legal holidays accepted, from
ten o'clock A. M. until three o'clock P. M. until every parcel shall
have been offered; should the treasurer, by reason of illness or other
disability, be unable to attend and conduct such sale or sales in
person, then a deputy to be by him appointed shall attend and con-
duct such sale or sales and make the affidavit to the report of sales
as now provided for by law.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1963.

Approved March 14, 1963.