HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                3013

Commissioners of the county may purchase the real estate and
convey it when sold by them by good and sufficient deed.
The Treasurer shall receive county certificates from
taxpayers to the amount of the taxes due by them
respectively, provided that said certificates are payable
out of the levy of the current year. [The Treasurer shall
be entitled to the following fees: for giving the notice to
enforce the payment of taxes, the sum of fifty cents ($0.50)
for each notice given, as hereinbefore provided, and, in
addition thereto for property sold, he shall receive a
poundage fee of three percent (3%) on the gross amount of
sales, but, if the amount of the bill be paid prior to sale,
after the same shall have been advertised, he shall only
receive as poundage fee one percent (1%) on the amount
collected, those several fees to be charged as a part of the
tax bill of the delinquent taxpayer.]

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
may not be construed to extend or apply to the salary of the
Treasurer of St. Mary's County in office on the effective
date of this Act, but the provisions of this Act concerning
the salary of the Treasurer of St. Mary's County shall take
effect at the beginning of the next following term of
office.

SECTION 4. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1981.

Approved May 19, 1981.

CHAPTER 800

(House Bill 1768)

AN ACT concerning

Thistle Control

FOR the purpose of providing that any person who owns, or
possesses and manages land shall make a reasonable
effort to prevent thistle seed set; providing that any
violator shall be given reasonable notice to adopt a
thistle control program; and providing that the
Secretary may use available resources to carry out the
provisions of this subtitle.

BY adding to

Article - Agriculture

Section 9-501 through 9-504, to be under the new

subtitle "Subtitle 5. Thistle Control"
Annotated Code of Maryland