EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be and he is
hereby authorized and directed to issue his warrant on the
Treasurer of the State for the sum of one hundred and sixty-
eight and 75 / 100 dollars ($168.75), to pay the claim of the
Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Baltimore city, executor
of Isabella Tyson, deceased, for amount of collateral inheri-
tance tax erroneously paid by it on the real estate of said
Isabella Tyson, deceased, the same having received recom-
mendation of officers of the Treasury Department of this
State.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 5, 1906.

CHAPTER 803.

AN ACT to add to Article 57, title "Limitation of Actions,"
of the Code of Public General Laws, an additional section
relating to tax sales and rights and titles thereunder, in
so far as the same may apply to Prince George's County.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

CHAP. 802

Warrant to be
drawn

land, That the following section be and the same is hereby
added to Article 57, title " Limitation of Actions " of the
Code of Public General Laws, to be designated Section 15 :
Section 15. Whenever land or lands shall be sold for the

New section
added.

payment of county or State taxes, or both, assessed thereon
and in default, and the owner or owners of such land or
lands at the time of such tax sale, his, her or their heirs,
devisees or assigns, severally, jointly or in continuous suc-
cessive ownership have held land or lands so sold in adverse
possession for seven years after the final ratification of
such tax sale and before action or suit brought, and duly
prosecuted by the purchaser or purchasers at such tax sale,
his her or their heirs, devisees or assigns to obtain posses-
sion of such land or lands, such possession shall be a bar to
all right, title, claim, interest, estate, demand, right of entry,
and right of action in such purchaser or purchasers, his,
her or their heirs, devisees or assigns derived from such tax
sale as to the land or lands so held in possession. This
section shall apply to all tax sales heretofore or hereafter

Tax sales and
rights and
titles
thereunder.