290 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 173

purchasers thereof, interest on the purchase price at the rate
of twelve (12) per centum per annum accruing between the
date of any such sale and the date of such redemption.

SEC. 16. Upon the demand of any owner or owners, of
real estate so sold for taxes and/or assessments, the said
treasurer shall pay to him or them the difference between the
amount of the purchase price of any piece or pieces of real
estate so sold at tax and/or assessment sale and the taxes,
assessments, interest, penalties and costs and all accrued taxes,
assessments, interest, penalties and costs on said real estate,
due and payable to the said Mayor and Common Council of
Hyattsville.

SEC. 17. Taxes on personal property shall be collected
as is now provided by law for the collection of such taxes
due Prince George's County.

SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That whenever any
real estate shall have been bought in, as herein provided,
by the Mayor and Common Council of Hyattsville, at any
tax and/or assessment sale made under the provisions of this
Act and the same shall not have been redeemed within the
time provided for the redemption thereof, and not set aside by
the Court for defects in the levying of such taxes or the
making of such assessments, the said Mayor and Common

Council, as an additional and cumulative means of enforcing
the payment of taxes and/or special assessments, interest,
penalties and costs against real estate, which have accrued
prior to the date of this Act, or which shall thereafter accrue,
and in no wise in derogation of the remedy hereby given,
may, within six months after the time of redemption has
expired, file a plenary proceeding in equity in the Circuit
Court for Prince George's County, Maryland, to re-affirm
and finally establish a lien upon said respective pieces of real
estate so sold to it, for the taxes and/or assessments, interest,
penalties and costs so assessed and charged against the same
and to obtain a decree for the enforcement thereof. The
owner or owners of each piece of real estate upon which such
taxes and/or assessments, interest, penalties and costs are
sought to be enforced, shall be made parties defendant in
said suit, and, if residents of the State of Maryland, shall

be personally served with process, and if non-residents, shall
be served with process by publication, as is provided by law.