The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1933-06-22

CHAPTER 1853.

Relative to the Publication of Notices
of Property Advertised and Sold
for Taxes by the County Treas
erer of Garrett County.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with
amendments Section 100 of Arti-
Gle IL of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland 1880 EDITION.
title Garrett County," subtitle
County Treasurer" so as to re-
duce the cost of advertising tax
sales.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Maryland, That
Section 100 of Article II of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland
1880 Edition), title Garrett Coun-
ty," subtitle County Treasurer" be
and it is hereby repealed and re-en-
acted with amendments to read as fol-
lows:
100. Whenever it becomes neces-
sary for said Treasurer to enforce
the payment of taxes by a sale of
realty he shall advertise such real
estate or so much thereof as may be
necessary, once a week for three sue
cessive weeks in one newspaper pub
lished in Garrett county, and by hand
bills posted at the court house door,
and at least five places in the district
where the land is located, any adver-
tised notice of a sale under the pro-
visions of this subtitle of this article,
shall be deemed sufficient if it con-
tains the time, terms and place of
such sale, the year or years for which
the taxes are due and the amount of
same, to whom the property is as
sessed, the district where located, the
quantity of land offered for sale, the
name or number of the tract or lot of
land, if it bear name or number, and
is so assessed, and the street number
if located in a town or city; and in
no case shall a description by metes
and bounds courses and distances be
required, unless it shall be necessary
for the identification and location of
such part or parts of real estate as
may be sold under a subdivision
thereof as provided in the next pre-
ceding section; no levy upon land
shall be required where the same is
sold by the treasurer by virtue of the
provisions of this subtitle of this Ar
ticle, and no notice or notices other
than those provided for in this sec
ton shall be necessary or required to
make valid any sale authyrized to be
made. No fee for the examination of
the title of land to be sold or sold for
taxes shall be allowed as part of the
costs of said sale or shall be paid by
the County Treasurer or County Com
missioners. In order to reduce the
expense of advertising the said Treas
urer shall include the notices of tax
sales in one advertisement whenever
he shall be proceeding with the sale of
more than one lot or parcel of land
or with the sale of land assessed to
more than one delinquent. The adver-
tisement when prepared by the County
Treasurer shall be submitted to all
newspapers published in Garrett
County in order to obtain bids for the
publishing of the same and said pub
LEGATION shall be awarded to the paper
making the lowest bid. The costs Of
publishing such advertisement, as
herein required, shall be equally dis
tributed among the several tracts or
lots of land herein named, and the
amount thereby apportioned to each
tract of land shall be added to the
sum for which such tract or lot is sold,
and the same shall be paid from the
proceeds thereof by the County Treas
urer, except that, when any tract or
lot sold at such sale is purchased by
the County Commissioners the sum
due for such publication shall be paid
out of the general county funds.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
That this Act is hereby declared to
be an emergency law and necessary
for the immediate preservation OF the
public health and safety, and being
passed by yea and nay vote, sup
ported by three-fifths of all the men,
bers elected to each of the two Houses
of the General Assembly, the same
shall take effect from the date of its
passage.