Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1906-04-27
PUBLIC LOCAL LA WIS.
CHAPTER 1884.

OF the town o: Garrett PARK, OF Montg0m-
cry county, Maryland, as enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, by Chap
ter 453, of 1898, and amended by Chapter
OF the Acts OF the General Assembly Of
| 1902.
Section /. Be il enacted by the General As
sembly Of Maryland, That Sections 3, 6 and
| l6 of Chapter 453 OF the Acts OF the Gen.
eral Assembly OF Maryland of 1893, entitled
an Act to incorporate the town Of Garrett
Park, in Montgomery county, Mary land, as
amended by Chapter Of the Acts of the
General Assembly Of Maryland Of 1902, be
and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacl-
ed with amendments so as TO read as follows :
Section 3. The citizens Of the town shall
on the first Monday in May, in the year nine
teen hundred and six, and every second year
thereafter, on the first Monday In Nay, at
such place or places as shall be designated by
the Judges of Election, between the hours of
Q O'Clock, P. NJ. and O'Clock, p. N elect
by ballot one person TO be mayor OF said
town, who shall serve for a term of two
years, or until his successor 10 elected and
qualified. The citizens aforesaid shall also
elect on the first Monday in May, nineteen
hundred and six, two persons 10 be members
of the council of said town, who shall serve
for q term OF two years, or until their sue
cessors are elected and qualified, and they,
| together with the two members of the cOun-
Gil elected at the election held in said town
on the first Monday in May, nineteen hundred
and FIVE, to hold Office for two years from
said date, and the mayor shall constitute the
council of said town. The citizens aforesaid
shall elect on the FIRST Monday in May OF each
year thereafter two persons to be members OF
the council Of said town, who shall serve for
two years, or until their successors are elect
ed and qualified. The qualifications for voters
for mayor and members of the council shall
be the same as prescribed for voters by the
laws OF this State. They must have resided
within the corporation limits of said town
for at least six mo- ths next preceding their
election. The mayor and members OF the
council must continue to reside 10 said town
during their terms Of Office, and they shall
receive no fees or compensation for their SER
vices, except that the mayor shall receive the
fees allowed by said charter in Section Of
Chapter 453 OF the Acts of the General As
sembly of 1898
Section They shall annually, on or be-
fore the first Monday in April, appoint three
Judges of Election, who shall appoint clerk,
and the said judges shall conduct an election
by ballot, in accordance with the provisions
OF Section 3 Of this Act. the polls to be opened
at 2 o'clock, p. N. and closed at O'Clock, P.
NJ, the judges and clerk shall make their re-
turn to the council, but said judges and clerk
vices. Not more than two of said judges Of
cleo ton shall be of the same political party.
Section l6. ALI taxes levied by the council
shall be due as soon as they are levied, and
are payable at the Office of the clerk and
treasurer Of said town. The ordinance pro-
viding for the levying Of taxes shall of itself
constitute the authority for the same and no
other warrant or evidence OF authority shall
be required. On or before the first day of
Ca .t.A. In n. lnulS cd
urer shall prepare q full and complete list Of
all taxes in arrears, with description OF the
property and the amount of taxes due from
each, and a penalty Of one per centum Of
such taxes In arrears shall be added ON said
first day OF September, and like penalty of
one per centum on the first day of each sue
ceeding month until such taxes and penalties
shall have been paid. On or before the first
day of April the clerk and treasurer shall pre-
pare list Of all taxes and penalties due and
in arrears, a brief description of the property,
the amount of taxes levied and in arrears,
including all arrears for previous years, with
penalties, interest, costs aud expenses accrued
and to accrue thereon until the day OF sale,
together with the name or names OF the per-
sons or corporations against whom such taxes
were assessed, TO which list shall be append
ed a notice OF sale stating that If such taxes,
penalties, interest, costs and expenses are not
paid by date fixed in such notice, the said
clerk and treasurer will proceed to offer for
sale and sell every piece OF said property,
real or personal, to the highest bidder, for
cash, the place of sale in said town and
the day and time also to be stated in said no.
tice, and said list and notice shall be pub
lished in newspaper published 10 Montgom-
cry county, once a week for three successive
weeks, and a copy of said list and notice 30
published shall be posted on the bulletin
board of said town OF Garrett Park
Section l6 A. On the day of sale the said
clerk and treasurer shall proceed to offer for
sale and sell any and all such pieces of property,
real and personal, upon which said taxes, pen
alties, interest, costs and expenses shall not
then have been paid, and shall continue such
sale from day to day or until every parcel of
said property shall have been offered and
sold; provided that where two or more lots,
pieces or parcels Of real property shall have
been assessed to one person or corporation
the clerk and treasurer shall offer for sale and
sell each OF such lots. pieces or parcel OF real
property separately until sufficient amount
shall have been realized to pay the whole
amount charged against such person or cor
poration, and the remainder of such lots.
| pieces or parcels of real property shall not Q
| offered for sale; provided further that where
part Of such real property advertised for sale
consists OF a tract Of land not snbdivided into
town lots, then only such portion thereof
shall be offered for sale and sold as shall 10
| the Judgment of the council be sufficient to
pay the whole amount OF taxes, interest, pen
alties, fees, costs aud expenses due upon the
whole of such tract of land. Should the
clerk and treasurer deem ii impracteable to
sell personal property liable for taxes at the
time and place aforesaid, then he may adver.
tise and sell said personal property at differ
q ma
ticable TO him in each case
Section l6 B. The said clerk and treasurer
shall within thirty days after the close Of
such sales make full report thereof to the
Circuit Court for Montgomery county, setting
forth his proceeding in the premises in detail
aud showing to whom and for what price the
| said parcels were respectively sold the
amount OF taxes, penalties, including arrears
for former years. interest accrued, the costs
and expenses and the surplus fund in each in.
stance. With each report he shall also file
a copy OF the printed list and notice afore-
said. The said court shall examine said pro
ceedings and II the same shall appear 10 be
regular and the provisions Of the law In re-
lation thereto have been complied with, shall
order notice 10 be given, to be advertised for
! two weeks in newspaper published in said
county, warning all persons interested in the
property sold, as Aforesaid, to be aud appear
In said court by certain day TO be named in
said order, TO show cause. il any they have,
why said sale should not be ratified and con.
6rmed, and in those cases where no cause or
sufficient cause be given against such ratidca-
ton, the court shall IN one order tatify and
| confirm all sales SO made and then entitled
10 be ratified and confirmed, and the purcha-
| ser or purchasers thereof shall in payment of
the purchase money have good title to the
property sold as aforesaid but il in the Judy
ment of the court cause be shown against the
ratification Of the sale Of any property SO sold,
the said sale shall be est aside as to such
property, in which case the said clerk and
treasurer shall, within thirty days thereafter,
proceed to new sale OF the property by al
| least three weeks advertisement ia a news
paper, as aforesaid, and make the report of