PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 359

CHAPTER 184.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact; with amendments sections 115
and 116L of the Acts of Assembly of Maryland of 1898,
Chapter 222, relating to the duties of the County Treasurer
of Prince George's County, and to add a new section to said
act to follow after section 115 and to be known as section
115A, providing for the collection of taxes on personal prop-
erty in Prince George's county by the County Treasurer'
thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That sections 115 and 116L of the Acts of Assembly of
1898, Chapter 222, be and the same are hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments and an additional section to fol-
low after section 115 and to be known as section 115A, be and
the same is hereby added to said Chapter 222, the said sections
repealed and re-enacted with amendments and the additional
section added to read as follows:

SEC. 115. The treasurer shall be the collector of all State
and county taxes levied by the County Commissioners of Prince
George's County, and shall have full power to enforce payment
thereof by sale of the property liable therefor, and to convey a
good title to any such property, real or personal, so sold by him.
Taxes assessed upon real estate shall be a first lien thereon
from the date of such assessment. The, sales of any and all
real estate made by the treasurer for defaulted, taxes shall be
reported by him under a general oath as to their fairness, to
the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, sitting in equity;
and if it appear that the requirements of the law have been
complied with, said Court shall finally ratify the, same, unless
cause to the contrary be shown by the owner or owners or those
in privity with him or them, on or before the first Monday of
May next after the first day of such sale, to wit: After the first
Monday of March. If any one lawfully interested shall show
cause in writing against the ratification of the sale of any parcel
of land, the Court shall proceed therein to determine the same
according to its usual practice in the matters of exceptions to
sales, and an appeal by either party to the Court of, Appeals
shall be allowed from any final order rendered therein; pro-
vided, the same be taken within two months from the date of
such order, and the record be forwarded within three months,
from the date of appeal to said Court As to each and every
parcel of land reported sold against the ratification of the sale
whereof no cause has been shown, the said Court shall forth-