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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

has elapsed since the date of warrant, and nothing herein con-

tained shall prevent any person from obtaining a proclamation

warrant on such certificate as fully as if this section had not

been enacted. If the amount involved does not justify in pro-

ceeding as above, the Commissioner, after giving at least two

months' notice in writing to the owner of the certificate of the

amount due thereon for fees and composition money, and the

same is not paid within two months after such notice, then such

certificate may be vacated and annulled, and the vacant land

included in such certificate may be taken up by anyone in the

same manner as other vacant land. If, however, the said notice

is returned unserved by reason of the owner of the certificate

not being found by the sheriff of the county where the vacant

land embraced in said certificate is situated or where the

owner resides, or is dead, or for any other cause the said

notice cannot be served, the Commissioner of the Land Office

may then give at least four weeks' notice in some newspaper

printed and published in the county where the land lies, that

the examiner's fee and composition money is not paid as pro-

vided in the notice aforesaid ; the Land Commissioner may,

after the expiration of two months from the date of the last

publication of said notice, the examining fee and composition

money still remaining unpaid, vacate and annul such certifi-

cate, and the land included in such certificate may be taken

up by anyone in the same manner as other vacant land. And

the costs of issuing any such notice, service or advertisement,

Manner of col-

shall be paid by the owner of such certificate, and if dead, be

lecting costs.

a preferred claim against the decedent's estate, if the said es-

tate is not finally administered ; and such costs shall be col-

lected by the sheriffs of the several counties and Baltimore

City, as fees of the Land Office are collected.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 571.

AN ACT to amend the charter of Kee Mar College of Wash-

ington County, Maryland, a corporation duly incorporated

under the General Laws of Maryland, by changing its cor-

porate name and adding to the corporate powers thereof.