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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 781

upon the third Tuesday in May of each year the County Treasurer
shall proceed to sell under the terms of said notice all property
upon which taxes are in arrears and interest, costs, expenses and
commissions are accrued thereon and not paid and shall continue
such sale from day to day on each secular day, legal holidays
excepted, from 10 o'clock a.m. to 3 o'clock p.m., until all of
said property shall have been offered and disposed of. [The
purchasers at such sales shall be entitled to immediate
possession and the right of immediate possession of the property
so sold, and to the rent accruing therefrom from the day of sale
(subject, nevertheless, to an accounting therefor upon redemption
of the property), and to insure and judiciously preserve said
property, but said purchasers shall commit no acts of waste to
said property.]

2-509.

Immediately after the first day of April, in each year, the
County Treasurer shall, in person, or by the Sheriff of Queen
Anne's County proceed to collect all taxes in arrears on personal
property by selling any realty or personalty in Queen Anne's
County belonging to the person assessed with the taxes so in
arrears; if real estate is sold, the County Treasurer shall sell
the same at the Court House in Centreville, for cash, after
giving at least [three] FOUR weeks' previous notice by
advertisement of the time and place of sale; said advertisement
to state the name of the person to whom the real estate is
assessed, and shall contain a locatable description of the same,
as required by the terms of [Section 6-14] § 14-813 OF THE TAX -
PROPERTY ARTICLE, thereafter the County Treasurer shall proceed
as required by the terms of [Section 6-15] §§ 14-817 AND 14-819
OF THE TAX - PROPERTY ARTICLE.

2-510.

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] §§ 14-817 AND 14-819 OF THE TAX - PROPERTY ARTICLE; 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.