524 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 275

359. No piece of 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 pro-
vided, 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 pro-
vided 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, adver-
tised 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 Commis-
sioners 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 con-
secutive weeks before the day of sale hereinafter provided for
in three newspapers 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 in-
formation 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 said forfeited parcels of real estate, as the
property of the County Commissioners of Prince George's
County, beginning with the first parcel on said list and con-