ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 295

Section 10K. The Town Treasurer is hereby authorized
and directed to execute and deliver to the purchaser or
purchasers (except the Mayor and Town Council of River-
dale) of any real estate so sold for taxes and not set aside
by the court, a deed to the real estate so sold and not re-
deemed within the time herein limited. Said deed shall
vest in the purchaser purchasers of any piece or pieces
of real estate at such tax sale a fee simple title therein.
Said deed shall recite the name or names of the owner or
owners of said 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.

Section 10L. Upon the redemption of any real estate
sold for taxes under the provisions of this Act, the said
Town Treasurer shall collect and pay to the purchaser or
purchasers thereof interest on the purchase price at the
rate of per centum per annum accruing between the date
of any such sale and the date of such redemption.

Section 10M. Upon the demand of any owner or owners
of real estate sold for taxes the said Town 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 sale and the taxes, interest, penalties and costs
and all accrued taxes, interest, penalties and costs on said
real estate, due and payable to the said Mayor and Town
Council of Riverdale.

Section ION. Whenever any real estate shall have been
bought in, as herein provided, by the Mayor and Town
Council of Riverdale, at any tax sale made under the pro-
visions of this Act and the same shall not have been re-
deemed within the time provided for the redemption there-
of, and not set aside by the court for defects in the levying
of such taxes, the said Mayor and Town Council, as an
additional and cumulative means of enforcing the payment
of taxes, interest, 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 I given, may, within six months after the
time of redemption has expired, file a plenary proceeding
in equity in the Circuit Court of Prince George's County,
Maryland, to reaffirm and finally establish a lien upon said