The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-05-22
Miscellaneous.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
DUBLIC LOCAL LAW.
TREASURER AND COLLECTOR.

AN ACT to repeal Section seven of the Act passed
at the January Session of eighteen hundred and
d. 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
tons seventy eight to ninety inclusive, entitled
Treasurer, and also to repeal Section ten of the
Act passed January Session, eighteen 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 mine, 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
tons seventy eight to ninety inclusive, 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, subtitle 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 Subsection to Section four
teen of said Act, and to re- enact the same with
amendment so as to read as follows:
SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted by the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, That Section seven of the Act
passed at the January Session of eighteen hun.
seventy nine, entitled An Act to repeal Sections
live to sixty four inclusive of the Public Local
Laws of Baltimore county, entitled Collector, and
Sections seventy weight to ninety inclusive, en-
titled Treasurer, and also to repeal Section ten of
the Act passed January Session, eighteen hundred
and seventy eight, entitled An Act to repeal Sec
tions three, FOUR five, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen
and fourteen of An Act passed at the January
Session of eighteen hundred and seventy-six,
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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 treasurer and
Collector and to repeal Section twelve of Chapter
one hundred and ninety six, Acts of ghteen hun
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 -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 to read as follows
Sec. Z. And be it enacted, That he shall appoint
such clerks as 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 IL 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
handbils conspicuously posted in such districts,
and by advertisement in two county newspapers,
and 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 brief notice in
one of the daily papers of the city of Baltimore
and two of the county papers announcing where
his Office may be and when he may be found
therein.
Sec. IL. 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 or 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, or upon real and personal 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 portion of it be
taken into possession, and whenever real estate is
susceptible of division 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 a part of
the costs in such proceedings such compensation
for his services as he may consider just not ex-
ceeding the sum of five dollars. Whenever any
levy may 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 it he be in possession of the prop
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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 authorized
to expose any property so levied upon at public
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 handbis 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 de-
scription by metes and bounds be necessary, nor
shall greater sum than four dollars be paid for
any newspaper advertisement thereof.
SEC. 2. And be ii 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 aforegong is cor
rect copy of an Act of the General Assembly of
Maryland, passed January Session, 1886.
w. G. PURNELL,
Secretary of the Senate.
E. B. PRETTYMAN,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
May S.-3t.