The Republican., 1943-05-20
CHAPTER $50

Oh APiER 63O
AN ACT to repeal Section S9A Of Ar.
ticle II of the Code of Public Loca
Laws Of Maryland 1880 Edition)
title Garrett County, subtitle
County Commissioners" as en-
acted by Chapter 555 Of the Acts
of Assembly Of 1899, and to repeal
Section 100 Of said Article u, as
amended by Chapter l6S of the
/ Acts Of 1898, and to re-enact said
Section l09 with amendments, re-
lating to tax sales in Garrett Coun-
/ ty.
Section l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly Of Maryland, That
Section 89A Of Article II Of the Code
of Public Local Laws of Maryland
| 1880 Edition), title Garrett Coun-
ty", subtitle County Commissioin-
ers", as enacted by Chapter 555 of the
Acts Of 1899, be and it is hereby re-
| pealed.
Sec. ,. And be it further enacted
That Section 109 of said Article II
of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland 1880 Editon), title Car
rett County, subtitle County Com
missoners", as amended by Chapter
268 of the Acts of 1888, be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-en-
acted, with amendments, so as to read
as follows:
1O9. 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 Arti-
Gle, shall be deemed sufficient if it
contains the time, terms and place OF
such sale, the year or years for which
taxes are due and the amount Of same,
to whom the property is assessed, 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 a name or number, and is so
assessed; if there be record evidence
thereof in Garrett County, a refer
ence to the record Liber and folio
where the deed or conveyance for
same is recorded, the name Of the
grantor and the date of the deed or
conveyance, or such other descrlp-
tion as shall be sufficient legally to
identify said property, and in no
case shall description by metes and
bounds, courses and distances be re-
quired, unless it shall be necessary
for the identification and location Of
such part or parts of real estate as
may be sold under 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 pro-
visions of this subtitle of this Article,
and no notice on notices other than
those provided for in this section shall
be necessary or required to make
valid any sale authorized to be made.
The County Treasurer shall have au-
thority to employ an attorney to eX-
anime the title of land to be adver-
tised or sold for taxes, to furnish
the information required for said ad-
vertisement and to prepare the report
of sale. if such shall be made, the
costs Of same, not to exceed $500 in
any one case to be allowed as part
of the costs of said sale or sales. In
order to reduce the expense of adver-
tising the said Treasurer shall in
clude 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 advertisement
when prepared by the County Treas
urer shall be submitted to all news
papers published in Garrett County
in order to obtain bids for the pub
fishing of the same and said publica-
ton shall be awarded to the paper
making the lowest bid. The cost 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
| Treasurer, except that, when any
tract or lot sold at such sale is pur-
chased by the County Commissioners
the sum due for such publication shall
! re paid out of the general county
! funds.
| Sec 3. 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 having
been passed by a yea and nay vote,
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