The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1845-04-05

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bond within thirty days after their APP
pointment, il. shall and may be lawful for
the Governor 10 appoint others i'll their
places, and SO from time to time after
every interval of thirty days until duly
qualified collectors shall be appointed
throughout the State, and the same power
shall and may be exercised by the Gov>
ernor annually, whenever and as often as
the Levy Courts, Commissioners of the
Tax and the Mayor aud City Council Of
Baltimore shall neglect or be unable to
procure duly qualified collectors by the
first day of May in each and every year.
Sec. 4. Ind be IL enacted, That when
ever and as often as an. collector of the
taxes levied for the use Of this State, shall
find 1t necessary TO proceed by way OF
distress or execution to collect taxes now
due or 10 become due, he shall first leave
with the party by whom the said taxes
are to be paid or at his usual place of
abode, statement showing the aggre-
gate amount of the property Of every des-
cription, with which such person is ass
sessed, and the amout of taxes due there.
upon, with a notice to the said statement
annexed, that unless the taxes SO due are
paid within thirty days, thereafter, the
said collector will proceed by way of dis
tress or execution to colec, the same.
Sec. S. Ind be 1t enacted, That after
the proceedings required by the preced-
ire section shall! have been had, if the
said taxes are not then paid. the said Col
lec!ors are hereby authorised and reqnir-
ed to levy upon either the real or person.
al property of the delinquent, and expose
the same 10 public sale either on the pre-
misses, or at The Court House Door Of the
County District or City, as the case may
be, after giving twenty days notice of the
time and place ofsale by advertisement in
at least one newspaper in the County,
District or City, where a newspaper is
published, and also by notice stuck up at
the Court House door, and in casa no
newspaper is printed in the County or
District, then in addition TO the notice at
the Court House Door, at two other pub
lie places in the ncighbourhood Of the
same, and the said Collector shall then
and there proceed TO sell by public auc-
ton, the property, either real or personal,
so levied on, for cash 10 the highest bid
der, retaining out of the proceeds Of such
sales, the amount of the taxes due from
such delinquent with the interest thereon,
together with all the costs incurred by the
said Collector in making the sale, return
ing the excess, if there be any, TO the own
er or owners thereof.
Sec. 6. .lnd be ii enacted, That in all
cases of the sale of real estate, under the
provisions of this act, or the Original Act
or any of its supplements, the party or
parties, owning the same, prior to the sale,
shall be and they are hereby authorised
to redeem the said real estate, by paying
to the purchaser thereof, within the 7eri>
cd OF twelve Calendar months from the
date Of such sale, the amount of the pur"
chase money for which the sand" may
have been sold, with interest thereon al
the rate of fifteen per centum per annunf
from the date of the sale.
Sec. Z. find be ii enacted, That in all
cases Of the sale of personal property I'M
der the provisions Of this act, or the ORR
glnal act or any of its supplements, the
said collector or collectors are hereby au-
lhorised and required, to deliver posses
sion thereof to the purchaser or purcha-
scrs, bu, in case The said property is not
present, or il for any other reason it shall
not be in the power OF the collector to
deliver possession as aforesaid, the pur-
chaser or purchasers may recover posses.
sion of the same by action Of replevin in
any Court having jurisdiction in such ca
ses, together with damages for the deten-
slons thereof, from The time of the sale, or
may recover the value thereof, and DANA
GEES in an action of trover.
Sec. s. find be ii enacted, That in all
cases of the sale OF real estate as aforesaid,
if the owner or owners shall not redeem
the same, within the time and upon the
terms aforesaid, the purchaser or purcha-
sers thereof, shall be and they are hereby
authorised to recover the possession, (if
the same be wilhheld) by action of eject
ment; and in all such cases, and also in
the cases contemplated by the preceding
section, the plaintiffs shall be entitled to
recover, upon producing the receipt of
collector for the purchase money, des-
cribing with reasonable certainty the pro-
perry sold, and upon showing on the part
OF the collector making the sale, a sub
slan'laI compliance with the acquisitions
of this Act.
Sec. 8. find be ii enacted, That if any
person or persons, shall resist, attack, or
menace with violence, any collector or
collectors, in the discharge Of the duties
required of them by this act, or the ORR
giral act, or any Of its supplements; or
shall resist, attack, or menace with vio-
lence, any person or persons present and
bidding or proposing to bid atany sale Of
property, by any such collector, then, and
in any such case, it shall and may be law.