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day, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, until all the real estate so adver-
tised to be sold shall have been offered for sale.

1927, ch. 173, sec. 6.

525. No piece of real estate offered at tax sale by said Treasurer shall
be, sold for less than the total of the taxes, interest, penalties and costs
of sale for which it is liable. If such a bid for the same be not made, it
shall be considered and recorded as sold to the Mayor and Common Coun-
cil of Hyattsville for the total amount thereof. In such case, it shall re-
main on the assessment books of the Mayor and Common Council of
Hyattsville and be taxed as other property thereon, but not re-sold at the
succeeding annual tax and/or assessment sales. A report of all sales
made by the said Treasurer, and final ratification thereof, shall be made
and had as herein provided.

1927, ch. 173, sec. 7.

526. Any real estate sold under the provisions of this Act may be re-
deemed within two years after the published date of the sale thereof by
the payment of the total amount of the taxes and assessments, interest,
penalties and costs for which the same was sold, interest at twelve per
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.

1927, ch. 173, sec. 8.

527. The sales of all real estate made by the said Treasurer for taxes
and special assessments so due and unpaid to the said Mayor and Common
Council shall be reported by him, under a general oath as to their fair-
ness, 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 Mayor
and Common Council of Hyattsville," as plaintiff, against each of the per-
sons or corporations named in said report of sales, as defendants.

1927, ch. 173, sec. 9.

528. 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 com-
pletely as it can hear and determine equity suits within its general juris-
diction.

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
provisions of the Laws of Maryland authorizing service of process upon