The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-05-15
Miscellaneous.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
DUBLIC LOCAL LAW.
TREASURER AND COLLECTOR.


at the January Session Of eighteen hundred and
seventy six, Chapter one hundred and seventy
nine, entitled An Act to repeal Sections fifty five
to sixty four inclusive Of the Public Local Laws
of Baltimore county, entitled Collector, and Sec
lions seventy eight to ninety inclusive, entitled
Treasurer, and also to repeal Section ten OF the
Act passed January Session, ghteen hundred
and seventy. eight, entitled An Act to repeal
Sections three, four, FIVE ten, eleven, twelve,
thirteen and fourteen of An Act passed at the
January Session, eighteen hundred and seventy
six, Chapter one hundred and seventy nine, en-
titled An Act to repeal Sections ffty-fve to
sixty four inclusive, of the Public Local Laws
of Baltimore County, entitled Collector, and Sec
tions seventy eight to ninety inc usive, entitled
Treasurer and Collector, and to repeal Section
twelve of Chapter one hundred and ninety six,
Acts of eighteen hundred and eighty. entitled
An Act to amend the Public Local Laws of Bal
timore county, Article three, sub title Treasurer
and Collector, by repeating and re enacting
Section twelve Of the Act passed at the January
Session, eighteen hundred and seventy eight,
Chapter four hundred and ninety four and by
adding additional Sub Section to Section four
teen of said Act, and to enact the same with
amendment so as to read as follows:
SECTION l. BE 1t cHdeted By the General Assem-
big Of Maryland, That Section of the Act
passed at the January Session of eighteen hun
dred and seventy six, Chapter one hundred and
seventy nine entitled An Act to repeal Sections
fifty five to sixty four inclusive of the Public Local
Laws of Baltimore county, entitled Collector, and
Sections seventy eight to ninety inclusive, en-
titled Treasurer, and also to reLea Section ten of
the Act passed January Session, eighteen hundred
and seventy eight, entitled An Act to repeal Sec
tions three four, fve ten, eleven, twelve thirteen
and fourteen of An Act passed at the January
! Session of eighteen hundred and seventy six,
! Chapter one hundred and seventy nine, entitled
An Act to repeal Sections fifty five to sixty four
| inclusive of the Public Local Laws of Baltimore
county, entitled Collector, and Sections seventy
eight to ninety inclusive, entitled reasurer and
Collector and to repeal Section twelve of Chapter
one hundred and ninety six Acts of eig hteen hum
dred aud eighty, entitled An Act to amend the
| Public Local Laws of Baltimore county Article
three, subtitle Treasurer and Collector, by repeal
| ing and re-enacting Section twelve of the Act
passed at the January Session, eighteen hundred
| and seventy eight Chapter four hundred and
ninety four and by additional Sub Section to
Section fourteen of said Act, and to re-enact the
same with amendments so as TO read as follows:
Sec. 7. And be 1t enacted That he shall appoint
such clerks may be found necessary to the
proper discharge of the duties of his office, and
that he shall be allowed for such clerks hire the
sum of two thousand dollars per annum.
SEC 10. And be ii enacted That nothing con-
tanned in Section nine Of this Act shall be held to
apply to State taxes; that it shall be the duty of
the Treasurer to attend in person or by deputy in
each election district, at least day between the
first day of August and the thirty first day of De-
cember in each year, to collect and receive taxes,
and the time and place of such visits shall be
made known not less than ten days in advance by
handbis conspicuously posted in such districts,
and by advertisement in two county newspapers,
ana he shall attend in the city of Baltimore at
least one day in each week during the year for
like purpose and he shall keep a brief notice in
one of the daily papers of the city of Baltimore
and fwn m ha xuho
his office may be and when he may be found
therein.
SEC. H. And be 1t enacted That if the taxes
levied shall not have been paid on or before the
first day of June in the year succeeding that on
which they shall have been levied, the Treasurer
shall within six months from the said first day of
June proceed to enforce payment of the same by
a levy upon the real personal property of the
party neglecting to pay; provided the notice pro-
vided for in the preceding Section shall have been
given If the taxes be due and owing upon real
property, upon real and pers nal, the Treasurer
is hereby authorized to levy upon either real or
personal property to enforce payment of the same,
but no levy upon real estate shall be deemed valid
unless made upon the premises and appraised
upon view, and no levy upon personal property
shall be deemed valid unless some portion OF 1t be
taken into possession, and whenever real estate is
susceptible of division so that part thereof will
sell for enough to pay the taxes due and all costs,
the Treasurer may, in his discretion, employ
surveyor to divide the same and tax as part of
The costs in such proceedings such compensation
for his services he may consider just, not ex-
ceedng the sum of five dollars. Whenever any
lew NAV be made notice thereof, together with
copy of the bill for taxes due, interest and all
costs including that of the levy, shall be deliver
ed to the owner if he be in possession of the prop
erty, or be conspcuously posted on the premises,
together with notice that if the said bill for taxes,
interest and costs is not paid within thirty days
the property levied upon will be sold at public
sale; and the said Treasurer is hereby authorizes
, TO expose any property so levied nnnn=sf= PNwu
sale at the expiration of the thirty days, he having
first given thirty days notice of the time and place
, of such sale by advertisement In one newspaper
published at TowsOntOwn and by printed hand
bills publicly posted on the Court House door and
at least ten places in the district where the prop
erty is located, one of such notices to be placed
upon the premises. Personal property may be
!, sold upon ten days notice by handbils so posted
in the district and at the Court House. Any ad-
verified notice of sale under the provisions of this
Act shall be deemed sufficient if it contains the
hour and place, the year years for which taxes
are due to whom assessed, the district where To-
Gated the quantity of land, if there be record evil
dence thereof and reference to the book or folio
where the deed for said property may be found
and the date of the deed. In no case shall a de-
scription by metes and bounds be necessary, nor
shall a greater sum than four dollars be paid for
any newspaper advertisement thereof.
SEC 2 And be IL enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.
HENRY LLOYD,
Governor of Maryland.
EDWIN WAKEFIELD,
President of the Senate.
JOSEPH b. SETH,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
We hereby certify, That the aforegoing is cor
rect copy of an Act of the General Assembly OF
Maryland, passed January Session, 1856
w. G. PURNELL,
Secretary of the Senate.
/ E. B. PRETTYMAN,
f Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
f May S.-3t.