ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 991

General Assembly of Maryland, Acts of 1902, Chapter 469 and
Acts of 1922, Chapter 198, be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows:

116G. No piece or real estate offered at tax sale, shall be
sold for less than the total of the taxes, interest, penalties
and costs of sale for which it is liable; and if such a bid for
the same be not made, it shall be sold to the County Commis-
sioners of Prince George's County for such total amount there-
of. In such case it shall remain on the assessment books of
the county and be taxed as other properties thereon, but not
be resold at the succeeding annual tax sales. Report of such
sale and final ratification thereof shall be made and had, as
hereinbefore provided, in the matter of tax sales generally
and if such real estate so sold be not redeemed within the
two years allowed therefor by the payment of the purchase
money, with interest on the same at the rate of 12 per cent.
per annum and of all subsequent taxes, interest and penalties
accrued thereon, it shall thereupon be forfeited to, and a good
fee-simple title to the same be vested in the County Commis-
sioners of Prince George's County, without the execution of any
deed therefor. Each piece of property so forfeited shall be re-
moved from said County assessment books and be entered in
a book to be provided for the purpose, to be called "Prince
George's County's Tax-Sale Properties, " and to be kept in the
office of the County Commissioners of Prince George's County
as a public record thereof, and thereafter said properties, while
the properties of Prince George's County, shall not be listed,
assessed, advertised or sold in the annual tax sales for defaulted
taxes to be held and begun on the first Monday of March in
each year, but upon sale of any parcel thereof by said County
Commissioners to a purchaser thereof, and conveyance made,
shall be stricken from the said book and be assessed anew to the
said purchaser and placed upon the assessment books of said
county. After each period of forfeiture said County Treas-
urer, for the time being shall make up a list of all such for-
feited properties, which list shall be inserted weekly for four
consecutive weeks before the day of sale hereinafter provided
for in three newspapers published in said Prince George's
County, to be selected by the said County Treasurer and shall
contain a description of each piece of such forfeited prop-
erties, its location, by district, its name, if any and known,
and the quantity of land approximately it contains, and any
other information, known to said County Treasurer, which