3896 ARTICLE 17.

or purchasers, (except the Mayor and Common Council of Hyattsville)
of any real estate so sold for taxes and/or assessments, and not set aside
by the Court, a deed to the real estate so sold and not redeemed within the
time herein limited. Said deed shall vest in the purchaser or purchasers of
any piece or pieces of real estate at any such tax and/or assessment sales,
a fee simple title therein. Said deed shall recite the name or names of
the owner or owners of said real estate at the time the same was sold; a
description of the real estate; the purchase price; the fact that the same
has not been redeemed within the time limited by this Act; that the sale
thereof has been ratified by the Court; and that said deed, under the
provisions of this Act, vests a fee simple in the purchaser or purchasers
of said real estate, their heirs or assigns.

1927, ch. 173, sec. 15.

534. Upon the redemption of any real estate sold for taxes and/or
assessments under the provisions of this Act, the said treasurer shall col-
lect and pay to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, interest on the pur-
chase price at the rate of twelve (12) per centum per annum accruing
between the date of any such sale and the date of such redemption.

1927, ch. 173, sec. 16.

535. Upon the demand of any owner or owners, of real estate so sold
for taxes and/or assessments, the said treasurer shall pay to him or them
the difference between the amount of the purchase price of any piece or
pieces of real estate so sold at tax and/or assessment sale and the taxes,
assessments, interest, penalties and costs and all accrued taxes, assess-
ments, interest, penalties and costs on said real estate, due and payable
to the said Mayor and Common Council of Hyattsville.

1927, ch. 173, sec. 17.

536. Taxes on personal property shall be collected as is ngw provided
by law for the collection of such taxes due Prince George's County.

1927, ch. 173, sec. 18.

537. Whenever any real estate shall have been bought in, as herein
provided, by the Mayor and Common Council of Hyattsville, at any tax
and/or assessment sale made under the provisions of this Act and the
same shall not have been redeemed within the time provided for the re-
demption thereof, and not set aside by the Court for defects in the levying
of such taxes or the making of such assessments, the said Mayor and Com-
mon Council, as an additional and cumulative means of enforcing the pay-
ment of taxes and/or special assessments, interests, penalties and costs
against real estate, which have accrued prior to the date of this Act, or
which shall thereafter accrue, and in no wise in derogation of the remedy
hereby given, may, within six months after the time of redemption has
expired, file a plenary proceeding in equity in the Circuit Court for Prince
George's County, Maryland, to reaffirm and finally establish a lien upon