770                                LAWS OF MARYLAND                        [CH. 526

478.

In the year [eighteen hundred and seventy-five] nineteen hundred
and sixty-six and every fourth year thereafter at the general election
for members of the House of Delegates, there shall be elected a
Treasurer for Prince George's County by the qualified voters of said
county, who shall hold his office for four years and until a successor
shall be elected and qualified; and be subject, at all times, to be
removed for wilful neglect of duty or misdemeanor in office, upon
conviction in a court of law. His official title shall be "Treasurer of
Prince George's County." The Treasurer shall be eligible for re-
election.

496.

(a)  No piece of real estate offered at tax sale shall be sold for less
than the total of the taxes, interest, penalties and costs of sale for
which it is liable; and if such a bid for the same be not made, it
shall be sold to the County Commissioners of Prince George's County
for such total amount thereof. In such case it shall remain on the
assessment books of the county and be taxed as other properties
thereon, but not be resold at the succeeding annual tax sales.

(b)  Report of such sale and final ratification thereof shall be made
and had as hereinbefore provided, in the matter of tax sales gener-
ally and if such real estate so sold be not redeemed within the two
years allowed therefor by the payment of the purchase money, with
interest on the same at the rate of 12 per cent, per annum, and of
all subsequent taxes, interest and penalties accrued thereon, it shall
thereupon be forfeited to, and a good fee simple title to the same be
vested in the County Commissioners of Prince George's County,
without the execution of any deed therefor.

(c)  Each piece of property so forfeited shall be removed from said
county assessments books and be entered in a book to be provided
for the purpose, to be called "Prince George's County's Tax-Sale
Properties," and to be kept in the office of the County Commissioners
of Prince George's County as a public record thereof, and thereafter
said properties, while the properties of Prince George's County, shall
not be listed, assessed, advertised or sold in the annual tax sales for
defaulted taxes to be held and begun on the first Monday of March,
in each year, but upon sale of any parcel thereof by said County
Commissioners to a purchaser thereof, and conveyance made, shall
be stricken from the said book and be assessed anew to the said
purchaser and placed upon the assessment books of said county.

(d)  After each period of forfeiture said County Treasurer, for
the time being shall make up a list of all such forfeited properties,
which list shall be inserted weekly for four consecutive weeks before
the day of sale hereinafter provided for in three newspapers pub-
lished in said Prince George's County, to be selected by the said
County Treasurer and shall contain a description of each piece of
such forfeited properties, its location, by district, its name, if any
and known, and the quantity of land approximately it contains, and
any other information known to said County Treasurer, which may
more fully identify the same. To such list shall be appended a
notice that on a certain day, to be named therein, said County Treas-
urer will at half-past ten o'clock A.M., at the Court House door, in