HARRY HUGHES, Governor

3657

Personal property may be levied or distrained upon or taken
in execution for the County Treasurer by the Sheriff of Queen
Anne's County and actual possession shall be taken thereof, and
it shall be sold for cash at public auction at some convenient
and public place within the County after ten days' previous
notice by handbills set up in at least three public places in the
district in which the property is seized; thereafter the County
Treasurer shall proceed as required by the terms of [Section
6-15] ARTICLE 81, §§ 80 AND 81 OF THE CODE; and the County
Treasurer shall receive in addition to the costs of advertising,
removal, care and/or custody of the property and court costs the
following fees under this section: levy $5.00; setting up of
notices $2.00; crying sale $5.00; reporting sale $3.00; and five
percent commissions on the proceeds of sale; and the County
Treasurer is hereby given full power and authority to enforce
collection of delinquent taxes on personal property by issuing
his warrant in the form following:

"To____WL, Sheriff of Queen Anne's County.

Sir:

You are hereby authorized that of the goods and chattels

of.............................. you distrain, seize and in your

possession hold and keep until you cause to be made and satisfied

and paid unto the undersigned the sum of .............dollars

and......cents ($                   ), for taxes on personal property by

the said.....................due and in arrears, interest, costs

and charges as per the annexed account, and have you those sums
(after due advertisement, notice and sale, if such shall be
necessary) to render unto the said undersigned the taxes due and
in arrears, interest, costs and charges aforesaid within

......... days from the date hereof; and for so doing, this shall

be your sufficient authority.

Given under my hand this ...............day of............,

19___

County Treasurer of
Queen Anne's County";

and to the warrant the County Treasurer shall cause to be annexed
an account showing the amount of taxes due and in arrears and the
interest due thereon, and all costs and charges accrued and to
accrue in the collection thereof, whereupon the party to whom the
warrant is directed shall immediately seize and take actual
possession of sufficient personal property of the party against
whom the warrant is directed and cause to be made the total
amount due, by selling said personal property, if necessary, in
the manner set forth in this section.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section(s)
2-503, 2-504, 2-505, 2-506, 2-508, and 2-513, inclusive, of