PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 877

ments of the person so refusing or neglecting to pay within the
limits of said town after giving at least twenty days' notice of
the time and place of sale by written or printed handbills set
up in two public places in said town- or by advertisement in
some newspaper published therein. And whenever real estate
is sold as aforesaid the treasurer or other person making such
sale shall report the same to the Circuit Court for Caroline
County which shall take and exercise jurisdiction over said sale
and cause such proceeding to be taken and had looking to the
ratification thereof as is or may be hereafter provided by law
for the ratification of tax sales in this State; provided, however,
that no sale of real estate as aforesaid shall be ratified to the
purchaser thereof, his heirs or assigns, if the person against
whom said tax was assessed, his heirs or assigns shall within
six months after said sale pay into Court to be paid to the pur-
chaser thereof, the whole amount of the purchase money,
together with interest thereon at the rate of ten per centum
per annum and cost.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1912.

CHAPTER 605.

AN ACT to pay the claim of the C. W. Martin Company.
(Vetoed.)

CHAPTER 606.

AN ACT to incorporate the Southern Settlement and Develop-
ment organization.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That S. Davies Warfield, Baltimore, Md., E. O. Brener,
Baton Rouge, La., Ben B. Cain, Dallas, Tex., J. H. Camden,
Versailles, Ky., George H. Campbell, Baltimore, Md., J. C.
Clair, Chicago, Ills., John J. Cornwell, Romney, W. Va., W.
J. Craig, Wilmington, N. C., George C. Crawford, Binning-
ham, Ala., L. E. Davis, Natchez, Miss., James B. Dodge, Jack-
sonville, Fla., John M. Cross, Baltimore, Md., Samuel A.
Hughes, St. Louis, Mo., G. W. Koiner, Richmond, Va., F. H.
La Baume, Roanoke, Va., W. H. Lahey, Atlanta, Ga., W. S.
Lee, Charlotte, N. C., R. F. Maddux, Atlanta, Ga., J. S. Mul-