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MUNICIPAL CHAPTERS

abutting property owner or posted upon said property when
the same is not in the occupancy of its owner or owners,
the said Mayor and Council shall have the work done and
the material furnished, and shall cause the town bailiff
to ascertain the proportion of expense chargeable to each
proprietor, and may recover the same by action in the
Circuit Court or before a [justice of the peace] JUDGE OF
THE DISTRICT COURT OF DORCHESTER COUNTY, according to
amount so awarded, and may collect such award as other
town taxes are collected, provided that before the
passage of any ordinance requiring the whole or any
portion of such sidewalks and gutters to be paved and
graded or repaved and regraded, and for the assessment of
the expense of such work upon the abutting owner ten
days' notice shall be given in some newspaper published
in town of Hurlock, AND if no newspaper be published in
said town of Hurlock then in some newspaper published in
Dorchester County, and an opportunity shall be afforded
all persons interested therein to be heard by and before
said Mayor and Council of Hurlock.

[316. Taxes to be lien; tax sale to pass title.

All taxes levied by the Mayor and Council of Hurlock
shall, from the time they are levied, be liens on the
real estate of the party, parties or body corporate,
indebted for such taxes, and on the personal estate
thereof, so long as the personal estate remains in the
taxpayer's possession, and all real estate shall be
liable for taxes assessed against the same, without
reference to the name of the person to whom the same
shall have been assessed; and the sale thereof made for
taxes as provided by law; shall pass the title thereto as
effectually as if the same had been assessed to the real
owner thereof at the time of the sale, who shall, for all
purposes be considered the party indebted.]

[317. Tax sale deed.

When the time for redeeming the property shall have
expired and the same has not been redeemed, the said
clerk shall, by a good and sufficient deed, executed and
acknowledged according to law, convey the property sold,
if the purchase money has been paid, and if the court has
finally ratified such sale, unto the purchaser or
purchasers thereof, their heirs or assigns; and if the
clerk of the Circuit Court, in whose office the same may
be recorded shall index it, not only in the name of the
grantor and grantee but also in the name or names of and
as from the former owner or owners to the grantee.]

[318. Town authorized to buy tax sale property.

The Mayor and Council of Hurlock are hereby