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Delaware Legal Code

§ 8778

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(a) In cases of sale of lands, under this subchapter, for the payment of taxes, the following costs shall be allowed to be deducted from the proceeds of sale, or chargeable against the owner: TO THE PROTHONOTARY: For filing and recording certificate $1.00 For filing and recording return of sale 1.50 TO THE RECEIVER OF TAXES AND COUNTYTREASURER OR THE DIRECTOROF FINANCE: For preparing certificate $ .25 For making sale of lands 2.00 For preparing and filing return 1.50 For posting handbills 1.00 (b) In addition the costs of printing handbills and publication of advertisements of sale under this subchapter, together with the miles necessarily traveled by the tax collecting authority in posting the handbills shall be chargeable as costs. Mileage shall be computed and chargeable at the rate provided by [former] § 9115 [repealed] of this title. (c) The cost of the deed shall not be chargeable as costs, but shall be paid by the purchaser.28 Del. Laws, c. 82, § 21; 30 Del. Laws, c. 82, § 6; 33 Del. Laws, c. 84, § 16; Code 1935, §§ 1413, 1446; 9 Del. C. 1953, § 8778; 57 Del. Laws, c. 762, § 24G; 71 Del. Laws, c. 401, § 115;