4110 ARTICLE 17.

TAXES.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 17, sec. 305. 1912 Code, sec. 586.

977. In all cases in which real estate in Prince George's county shall
have been decreed to be sold by a Court of equity and a trustee shall have
been appointed to make said sale, and in all other cases of trust estates
under and by virtue of deeds of trust, last wills or testaments or other-
wise, in which proceedings have been commenced in said Court of equity
for the execution or enforcement of said trust, and where the treasurer
or collector of taxes, as the case may be, shall have no power under the
existing law to enforce the payment of taxes, and the taxes on said real
estate shall have been due and in arrears for twelve months, it shall be the
duty of the county treasurer or collector of taxes, as the case may be, to
apply to said Court by petition verified by affidavit, showing the amount
of taxes due and in arrear, and the real estate upon which said taxes are
due and in arrear; upon which petition the Court shall pass an order
requiring the said trustee forthwith to pay said taxes, or show cause to the
contrary on or before a certain day to be named in said order, not to exceed
thirty days from the filing of said petition; said taxes to be paid by said
trustee out of any rents or other funds derived from or belonging to said
trust estates; and in case there shall be no fund as aforesaid belonging to
said trust estates liable for the payment of said taxes, the said Court
shall, upon being satisfied thereof, forthwith pass an order directing the
sale of so much of said real estate as may be necessary to pay said taxes
and expenses of said sale, in such manner and after such notice as the said
Court may think proper to direct, which said sale shall be reported to said
Court for ratification, as all other sales made under decrees of Courts of
equity, and when ratified and the purchase money therefor shall have
been fully paid, the said trustee shall convey to the purchaser thereof said
real estate so as aforesaid sold, by good and sufficient deed.

1906, ch. 803, sec. 15. 1912 Code, sec. 588.

978. Whenever land or lands shall be sold for the payment of county
or State taxes, or both, assessed thereon and in default, and the owner or
owners of such land or lands at the time of such tax sale, his, her or their
heirs, devisees or assigns, severally, jointly or in continuous successive
ownership have held land or lands so sold in adverse possession for seven
years after the final ratification of such tax sale and before action or suit
brought and duly prosecuted by the purchaser or purchasers at such tax
sale, his, her or their heirs, devisees or assigns, to obtain possession of
such land or lands, such possession shall be a bar to all right, title, claim,
interest, estate, demand, right of entry and right of action in such pur-
chaser or purchasers, his, her or their heirs, devisees or assigns derived
from such tax sale as to the land or lands so held in possession. This sec-
tion shall apply to all tax sales heretofore or hereafter made and ratified
as aforesaid; provided, nevertheless, that as to such tax sales made and
ratified as aforesaid prior to the first day of May, in the year 1900, its
operation and effect shall be suspended for the period of one year from