ART. 17.] TAXES—TRESPASS. 1635

offence, to be recovered before a justice of the peace as small
debts are, one-half to the informer and the other half to said

county.

TAXES.

1884, ch. 440.

305. 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 and testaments or otherwise, 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 exist-
ing law to enforce the payment of taxes, and the taxes on said
Teal estate shall have been due and in arrear 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 con-
trary 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.

TRESPASS.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 16, sec. 180.

306. If any person residing out of the State shall commit any
trespass whatever upon the lands within Prince George's county,