696 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [ CH. 405

of Public Local Laws, as said sections were enacted by Chap-
ter 369 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of
1910, then the present Treasurer or any succeeding Treasurer
is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to make such
report of said tax sale or sales to the Circuit Court for Queen
Anne's County and take such other proceedings therein as
by law may be requisite which the Treasurer making said
tax sale or sales should have done and was by law empowered
and required so to do, and the said Circuit Court shall have
such power to ratify said tax sale or sales in the same manner
as if said sale or sales had been reported by the Treasurer
making the same, and upon the final ratification by the Cir-
cuit Court for Queen Anne's County of said tax sale or sales
the said present Treasurer or any succeeding Treasurer is
hereby authorized, empowered and directed to execute and
deliver unto the said purchaser or purchasers at said tax sale
or sales made by such former or preceding Treasurer a deed to
said property so purchased, and such deed shall be as good and
valid in law as though it had been executed by the Treasurer
making said tax sale or sales.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the first day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty.

Approved April 16, 1920.

CHAPTER 405.

AN ACT to add one new section to Article 18 of the Code of
Public Laws of Maryland, title "Queen Anne's County,"
sub-title "Sheriff," to be known as Section 231-A and to
follow immediately after Section 231, providing for an
annual salary for the Sheriff of Queen Anne's County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That one new section be hereby added to Article 18 of
the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Queen
Anne's County," sub-title "Sheriff," to be known as Section
231-A, and to follow immediately after Section 231, and to
read as follows:

SEC. 231-A. The Board of County Commissioners of Queen
Anne's County be and they are hereby authorized, empow-
ered and directed to levy and to pay to the Sheriff of Queen
Anne's County, annually, in equal monthly payments the sum