1352 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 556

Said sale shall commence at ten o'clock A. M. on the first Mon-
day in April of each year and continue until three o'clock P.
M., from day to day, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, until
all the real estate so advertised to be sold shall have been offered
for sale.

28. No piece of real estate offered at tax sale by said Treas-
urer shall be sold for less than the total of the taxes, interest,
penalties and costs of sale for which it is liable. If such a bid
for the same be not made, it shall be considered and recorded
as sold to the Mayor and City Council of North Brentwood for
the total amount thereof. In such case, it shall remain on the
assessment books of the Mayor and City Council of North
Brentwood and be taxed as other property thereon, but not re-
sold at the succeeding annual tax and/or assessment sales. A
report of all sales made by the said Treasurer, and final ratifi-
cation thereof, shall be made and had as herein provided.

29. Any real estate sold under the provisions of this Act
may be redeemed within two years after the published date of
the sale thereof by the payment of the total amount of the
taxes and assessments, interest, penalties and costs for which
the same was sold, interest at twelve per centum per annum
on the amount of such sale from the date of sale, as published,
to the time of redemption, and all subsequent taxes and/or
assessments, interest, penalties and costs which shall have
accrued thereon.

30. The sales of all real estate made by the said Treasurer
for taxes and special assessments so due and unpaid to the
said Mayor and City Council shall 'be reported by him, under
a general oath as to their fairness, to the Circuit Court for
Prince George's County, sitting in equity. Said sales shall
be listed in separate paragraphs and numbered. The Clerk
of said Court, upon receiving said report, shall docket a suit
in the equity docket of said Court in the name of the "Treas-
urer of the Mayor and City Council of North Brentwood" as
plaintiff, against each of the persons or. corporations named in
said report of sales, as defendants.

31. The Circuit Court for Prince George's County is here-
by vested with full and complete jurisdiction to hear and
determine suits docketed upon said Treasurer's report as pro-
ceedings in rem as fully and completely as it can hear and
determine equity suits within its general jurisdiction.