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clerk of Circuit Court, upon receiving from the treasurer a list
of the real estate about to be advertised and sold for taxes,
shall verify the said treasurer's list by reference to the libers
and folios set out in the treasurer's list from the records in the
clerk's office. The said clerk shall receive a fee of twenty-five
cents for verifying each and every reference to the Iiber and
folio set out in the treasurer's list; and the said clerk shall re-
ceive five dollars for filing a report of tax sales made by the
said treasurer as^v hereinbefore provided, docketing the same
and making other entries relative thereto; all of said fees, as
well as other costs and expenses, to be taxed against and col-
lected out of the proceeds of the property sold for taxes. In all
cases of sales where exceptions are filed, a separate suit shall
be docketed by the clerk on the equity docket, and he shall re-
ceive from the party requiring any service therein the same fees
allowed for similar services in ordinary equity suits, the said
fee, as well as matters of procedure, to be fixed by the Court
where otherwise not specifically provided by law, and the ex-
ceptions shall be heard by the Court in the usual manner that
exceptions in chancery are generally heard, except as to the
taking of evidence, which shall be in open Court, if the Court
shall so order it; in all matters in the hearing of such excep-
tions not specifically provided for herein, the Court shall hear
the same under such regulations as it may see fit to prescribe,
in order to try the case upon its substantial merits without re-
gard to technical errors or formal inaccuracies, it' being the
distinct intention of this Act that it shall be construed liber-
ally in favor of maintaining suits and proceedings for the col-
lection of taxes against delinquent taxpayers.

SEC. 11. That nothing in this Act shall, in any manner, ef-
fect the legality of any tax sales heretofore made by any Treas-
urer of said Charles county; and that the said treasurer shall
report such sales, as provided by the existing law at the time
of the making thereof, and the same proceedings shall be had
in reference thereto, in the same manner as if this Act had not
been enacted.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That all Acts or parts of Acts
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be and the same
are hereby repealed, and that this Act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1910.

CHAPTER 163.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact Sections 49 and 49A of Article
9 of the Code of Public Local Laws, titled "Charles County"