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excepted, until all have been offered for sale; and on said day
of sale the treasurer shall proceed to make sale in conformity
with his said published notice. No piece of such forfeited
,real estate offered for sale as aforesaid shall be sold for less
than the total of the taxes, interest, penalties and costs of sale
for which it is then liable, and if no such bid for the same be
made, it shall be withdrawn from such public sale ; thereafter
the County Commissioners of Prince George's county are
authorized and empowered to sell the same at public or
private sale for such price as they may deem advisable, and
upon payment of the whole purchase money for any parcel of
forfeited real estate sold as aforesaid, and not before, to the
treasurer for the time being, said treasurer shall execute to
to the purchaser thereof a deed in fee simple. But the owner or
owners of any parcel of real estate forfeited, or forfeited and
gold, as hereinbefore provided, may at any time prior to
the actual payment of the purchase money for such parcel of
real estate by the purchaser then pay to the treasurer for
the time being the total of all taxes, interest, penalties
and costs of sale due and accrued to date on account of, upon
and against such parcel of real estate, and thereupon such
forfeiture or forfeiture and sale shall cease to be of any force
and effect and become null and void, and such owner or
owners shall become revested of his, her or their former right,
title, claim, interest and demand at law or in equity of, in and
to such parcel of real estate ; the right of redemption hereby
given shall apply to any and all forfeitures and forfeitures and
sales of real estate, whether heretofore occurred or hereafter to
occur, and any and all such redemption heretofore made are
hereby ratified and confirmed ; and whenever the county
treasurer, acting under a formal order in writing of the County
Commissioners, has heretofore received and receipted for the
taxes, interest, penalties and costs due upon any piece or parcel
of ground heretofore sold to the County Commissioners, for
want of a satisfactory bid, the forfeiture of said property shall
thereupon cease as fully as if said property had not been so
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sold to the said County Commissioners upon such redemption ;
the treasurer, for the time being, shall enter upon the proper
books of his office and upon the report of sale relating to such
parcel of real estate redeemed, the date and fact of such
redemption. The County Commissioners of Prince George's
county are also authorized to refund to any delinquent tax-
payer or taxpayers the residue of the proceeds of sale of his,
her or their parcel of real estate heretofore or hereafter for-
feited and sold as aforesaid, after deducting therefrom penal-
ties and costs of sale due and accrued on account of, upon and
against such parcel at the time of the sale thereof, and the
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Date of
redemption
to be
entered upon
the proper
books.
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