EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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and taken to be an owner of real estate within the meaning

of this Article.

218M. Where the owner of the real estate is an infant, non

compos mentis or cestue que trust, notice given the guardian,

Sufficient no-
tice.

or, if there be no guardian, the parent or person standing in

loco parent is to said infant, the committee or trustee of said

non compos mentis, or the person in whom is vested the legal

title to the property in which said cestue que trust has an equita-

ble interest, as the case may be, shall be taken as notice upon

the real owner of said real estate, and shall be taken as suffi-

cient notice ; provided, a copy of said notice be also conspicu-

ously posted on said real estate at the time of the service of said

notice.

218N. The notice to be given the owner or the owners of

Written no-

real estate as provided in Section 218H must be a written no-

tice.

tice, and where a personal service of said notice is made must

be in duplicate, one copy to be left with the person notified

and the other copy to be endorsed by the person with whom

it was left for service, so as to show whether or not and upon

whom it was served, and the endorsement thereon shall be

prima facie correct

218P. When the person is served with the notice in Queen

Anne's County the service shall be made by the bailiff; when

Service to be
made by

the person is served with notice within the State of Maryland.

bailiff.

but beyotid the limits of Queen Anne's County, the notice

must be served by the bailiff or by any other person personally

known to at least one of the Town Commissioners of Queens-

town, and authorized by said Commissioners to make said

service ; provided, that where any person is served with said

notice outside of Queen Anne's County a copy of said notice

be also conspicuously posted on the real estate in Queenstowrj

of the person so notified.

218Q. In every case where the owner of real estate is out-

side of the State of Maryland, the notice may be given in the

Publication io
newspaper

way provided by the preceding section or by the publication of

sufficient

said notice in some newspaper printed and published in Queen

Anne's County, State of Maryland, for at least three successive

weeks, and when said notice has been published as herein

provided it shall be taken to be a sufficient service of said

notice ; provided a copy of said notice be conspicuously posted

on said real estate at the time of or before the first insertion

of said notice in said newspaper.

218R. In every case where a corporation is the owner of

real estate within the corporate limits of Queenstown, notice