702

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

of a certain tract of land situated in Anne Arundel county,
for want of heirs of a certain John A. Queen, deceased, intes-
tate; and

Preamble.

WHEREAS, The County Surveyor for said Anne Arundel
county made return of said tract of land, showing that said
tract contained forty-one and three-quarter acres of land, and
placed a net valuation thereon of one hundred and thirty-nine
dollars and sixteen cents; and

Preamble.

WHEREAS, The said Mrs. Melissa McCullough Brown failed
to pay the said sum of money, but took possession of said
property; and

Preamble.

WHEREAS, A previous warrant of resurvey had been by
said Land Commissioner issued to one ———— Phelps, which
was never paid for; and

Preamble.

WHEREAS, The said real estate was put on the assessment
list of Anne Arundel county at the time of the general assess-
ment in eighteen hundred and seventy-six; and

WHEREAS, On the tenth day of November, eighteen hun-

Preamble.

dred and eighty-three, one George B. White, collector of
county and State taxes in Anne Arundel county, sold to the
said William T. Joyce for taxes in default the said tract of
land at and for the sum of one hundred and four dollars and
thirteen cents, and gave a deed therefor to said Joyce duly of
record among the Land Records of Anne Arundel county, in
Liber S. H. No. 23, folio 121, &c.; and

Preamble.

WHEREAS, If said property had been assessed by the collec-
tor of county and State taxes for county and State purposes
and no warrant of resurvey had ever been issued from the land
office, the title of the purchaser would have been indefeasible,
but owing to the fact that said warrants had been issued, the
title cannot so vest without the enactment of a law in this
behalf; and

Preamble.

WHEREAS, Under the equities of the case it appears that the
said Joyce is entitled to relief in the premises; therefore,

Title to land
perfected.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the tax sale of the land in the preamble to this act
mentioned, made by George B. White, collector of county and
State taxes in Anne Arundel county, to William I. Joyce, of
forty-one and three-quarter acres of land in the year 1883, and
conveyed by deed dated the 21st day of January, 1884, duly of
record among the land records for Anne Arundel county, be,
and the same is hereby ratified and confirmed, and that the title