3834 ARTICLE 17.

ment. Any property assessed as above shall be immediately liable for the
State and county taxes for each year it has escaped taxation at the rate
of the tax fixed for such year, and the same shall be a first lien thereon
and be collected by the treasurer for the time being, in the manner of
collecting the current levy provided by law.

1902, ch. 469, sec. 116G. 1912 Code, sec. 225. 1922, ch. 198. 1924, ch. 382.
359. No piece or real estate offered at tax sale, shall be sold for less
than the total of the taxes, interest, penalties and costs of sale for which
it is liable; and if such a bid for the same be not made, it shall be sold
to the County Commissioners of Prince George's County for such total
amount thereof. In such case it shall remain on the assessment books of
the county and be taxed as other properties thereon, but not be resold at
the succeeding annual tax sales. Report of such sale and final ratification
thereof shall be made and had, as hereinbefore provided, in the matter

of tax sales generally and if such real estate so sold be not redeemed
within the two years allowed therefor by the payment of the purchase
money, with interest on the same at the rate of 12 per cent, per annum

and of all subsequent taxes, interest and penalties accrued thereon, it
shall thereupon be forfeited to, and a good fee-simple title to the same be
vested in the County Commissioners of Prince George's County, without

the execution of any deed therefor. Each piece of property so forfeited
shall be removed from said County assessment books and be entered in

a book to be provided for the purpose, to be called "Prince George's
County's Tax-Sale Properties," and to be kept in the office of the County
Commissioners of Prince George's County as a public record thereof, and
thereafter said properties, while the properties of Prince George's County,
shall not be listed, assessed, advertised or sold in the annual tax sales for
defaulted taxes to be held and begun on the first Monday of March, in each
year, but upon sale of any parcel thereof by said County Commissioners to
a purchaser thereof, and conveyance made, shall be stricken from the said
book and be assessed anew to the said purchaser and placed upon the
assessment books of said county. After each period of forfeiture said
County Treasurer, for the time being shall make up a list of all such
forfeited properties, which list shall be inserted weekly for four consecu-
tive weeks before the day of sale hereinafter provided for in three news-
papers published in said Prince George's County, to be selected by the
said County Treasurer and shall contain a description of each piece of
such forfeited properties, its location, by district, its name, if any and
known, and the quantity of land approximately it contains, and any other
information, known to said County Treasurer, which may more fully
identify the same. To such list shall be appended a notice that on a
certain day, to be named therein, said County Treasurer will at half-past
ten o'clock A. M., at the Court House door, in the town of Upper Marlboro
in said county, proceed to offer for sale, at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash, each of the said forfeited parcels of real estate, as the
property of the County Commissioners of Prince George's County, begin-
ning with the first parcel on said list and continuing on in the order of