EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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and if the purchaser has not paid the purchase money or
the subsequent taxes, said payment shall be applied to the

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payment of the taxes for which said property may have
been sold, and all taxes thereon then in arrears, with interest
thereon according to law, and the costs of proceedings ;
but such sale shall not be set aside if the provisions of the
law appear to have been substantially complied with, and
the burden of proof shall be on the exceptant to show the
same to be invalid.

How applied.

And sub-section (e) of Section 19 be and the same is
hereby repealed.

Approved March 22, 1906.

CHAPTER 101.

AN ACT to amend Article 4 of the Public Local Laws of
Maryland, entitled, "City of Baltimore," as the same was
enacted by Chapter 123 of the Acts of the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, passed in the year 1898. by adding an
additional section to said Article 4, to follow Section 58
thereof, and to be known as Section 58 A.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Repeal.

land, That Article 4 of the Public Local Laws of Maryland,
entitled "City of Baltimore," as the same was enacted by
Chapter 123 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, passed in the year 1898, be and the same is hereby
amended by adding an additional section to said Article 4,
to follow immediately after Section 58 of said Article and to
be known as Section 58 A, and to read as follows :

58 A. At the trial or hearing of any suit or proceedings of

New section
added.

any kind, either at law or in equity, or before any justice of
the peace, brought for the recovery of any tax or taxes, and
for any interest or penalties that may be due and owing on
account of the non-payment of such tax or taxes, against any
corporation, firm or individual, and in the case of an individual,
whether such suit or proceedings be against him or her in a
representative or fiduciary capacity, or in his or her own
right, the certificate of the City Collector or of the collector
of State taxes in the city of Baltimore, as the case may be,
as to the amount of such tax or taxes due, and as to the

Prima facie
evidence.