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centum per annum on the amount of such sale from the date of sale, as
published, to the time of redemption, and all subsequent taxes and/or
assessments, interest, penalties and costs which shall have accrued thereon.

293. Vacant.

1929, ch. 141, sec. 8.

294. The sales of all real estate made by the said Treasurer for taxes
and special assessments so due and unpaid to the said Cottage City Com-
mission 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. Said
sales shall be listed in separate paragraphs and numbered. The Clerk of
said Court, upon receiving said report, shall docket a suit in the equity
docket of said Court in the name of the "Treasurer of the town of Cottage
City," as plaintiff, against each of the persons or corporations named in
said report of sales, as defendants.

1929, ch. 141, sec. 9.

295. The Circuit Court for Prince George's County is hereby vested
with full and complete jurisdiction to hear and determine suits docketed
upon said Treasurer's report as proceedings in rem as fully and completely
as it can hear and determine equity suits within its general jurisdiction.

The said Treasurer's report of sales shall be considered and treated by
the Court as if it were a bill in equity. Upon the filing of said report the
said Court, through its Clerk, shall issue an order of publication against
each of the persons or corporations named in said report, which order of
publication shall be drawn and published in accordance with the provi-
sions of the Laws of Maryland authorizing service of process upon non-
resident defendants by publication. Upon it appearing to the satisfaction
of the Court that said order of publication has been duly published and
that the time fixed by law for the defendants to appear and answer has
expired, the Court shall proceed to hear and determine all questions raised
as to said tax and/or assessment sale or sales and shall enter such decree
or decrees as the nature of the case may require. A substantial compli-
ance with the provisions of this Act by the said Treasurer in making such
tax and/or assessment sale or sales and reporting the same to the Court
shall be deemed to be a sufficient compliance therewith.

1929, ch. 141, sec. 10.

296. An appeal from a final decree of said Court may be taken by any
party having an interest in any piece of real estate described in said report,
to the Court of Appeals of Maryland, but such appeal shall apply only
to the real estate of the parties appealing, the decree or decrees rendered
in said cause otherwise to remain in full force and effect.

Said appeals shall be taken and perfected as now required by law.

1929, ch. 141, sec. 11.

297. Whenever the Court shall set aside any sale for taxes and/or
assessments so reported, the taxes and assessments, interest and penalties