376 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 221

services as such trustee, nor shall he be required to furnish
bond as such trustee. The Court shall issue its subpoena
for all parties defendant within its jurisdiction. In the
event that personal service cannot be procured upon such
parties, upon two returns of "non est" by the sheriff of
the subpoena herein provided for, the Court shall order the
publication in one daily newspaper published in Baltimore
City once a week for four successive weeks, giving notice
to said parties defendant of the substance of the bill of
complaint, and commanding them to be and appear before
the Court on some day to be named therein and show
cause, if any they may have, why the property should not
be sold to satisfy the said tax lien. The filing of answers
and all other matters relating to the bringing of the case
to issue shall be the same as in proceedings before the
Equity Courts. Upon an adjudication that the property
shall be sold for the satisfaction of the tax lien, the Court
shall appoint the City Collector trustee to sell the prop-
erty, the procedure to be followed by the said trustee to
be the same as that in the Equity Courts governing judicial
sales. In the event that the title search as herein provided
shall disclose the fact that the property against which the
lien is recorded is subject to a leasehold estate, the trustee
shall at the sale first offer the leasehold interest for sale,
subject to the ground rent. Upon offering said leasehold
estate for sale subject to the ground rent, if no bid is
received sufficient to pay the taxes and the expenses of
the said sale, the trustee shall then offer for sale the fee
simple interest in said property. Upon the ratification of
the sale, the court costs and expenses of sale shall first
be paid out of the proceeds of the sale and all State and
municipal liens shall be paid before any other lien of any
other nature whatsoever.

Any sale made under this provision shall not be subject
to ratification by the Court until after the expiration of
one year- and one day from the date of the sale, during
which period the record owners and mortgagees shall have
the right to redeem the same upon payment of all liens and
expenses in the same manner as is now provided under the
now existing provisions of Article IV of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition).

Upon the final ratification of the sale, the trustee shall
acknowledge and deliver a deed conveying to the purchaser
the property purchased, and such deed shall convey a con-
clusive title to the property sold and conveyed as against
any person or persons who may have been personally
served with subpoena as herein provided or who may have