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remuneration for posting notices, or for auctioneers' fees, or for reporting
sale to the Court, or for any appearance fees or counsel fees in said Court,
in connection with any such report of sales, or otherwise, in the discharge
of the duties of said office; nor shall he retain or demand out of the pro-
ceeds of any sale made by him as treasurer any money hereinbefore pro-
vided, and the fees allowed by law to the clerk of the Circuit Court in such
cases; and if the treasurer or any clerk, agent or deputy of said treasurer
shall ask, demand or receive any greater costs or fees than allowed by the
provisions of this and the preceding section, the persons so offending shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall pay
a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500 for each and every offense,
one-half thereof to go to the informer, and the other half thereof to go
to the school fund of said county. The said salary and fees so allowed shall
not be retained by the treasurer out of the collections made, but shall be
paid him by the clerk by check, as other claims are paid and from time to
time as such salaries and fees are earned, and in no other manner; the com-
mission on uncollected taxes turned over to his successor in office shall not
be allowed him, but shall be allowed to the assessors who collect the same.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 236. 1894, ch. 615. 1914 Code, sec. 359.

500. The treasurer shall not be authorized to pay any officer or other
person, being a debtor of the County Commissioners or owing taxes,
any salary or other claim against the county until he shall have first de-
ducted the account due by such officer or other person to said Commission-
ers or for taxes; on all taxes in arrears in the hands of the treasurer for
collections, he shall be charged interest from the time when the same
became due and payable until collected or accounted for respectively.

1890, ch. 535. 1914 Code, sec. 360.

501. It shall be the duty of the treasurer and he is hereby directed to
receive from any person or corporate institution, from time to time, partial
payments of the taxes due by them to the amount of not less than five dol-
lars until the full amount of the taxes due by them are paid as hereinbefore
provided.

1898, ch. 506. 1914 Code, sec. 361.

502. All purchases of real estate heretofore made by the County Com-
missioners of Anne Arundel County from the respective treasurers of said
county, at tax sales for State and county taxes in default, be and the same
are hereby ratified, confirmed and legalized, as to the vesting in said
County Commissioners of the title of the properties so purchased, subject
to the ratification of such sales by the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel
County.

1898, ch. 506. 1914 Code, sec. 362.

503. The said Commissioners of Anne Arundel County are hereby
authorized, in case of any future sales of property at tax sales for default
in the payment of taxes, to purchase such property and acquire title to and