ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR, 1355

39. Whenever any real estate shall have been bought in,
as herein provided, by the Mayor and City Council of North
Brentwood, 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 City
Council, as an additional and cumulative means of enforcing
the payment of taxes and/or special assessments, interest, pen-
alties 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.

The said Court is hereby given jurisdiction to hear and
determine such causes, established such liens and decree the
enforcement thereof. If said Court shall determine that said
taxes and/or assessments were legally levied or made by said
Mayor and City Council, any defect or irregularity in the tax
and/or assessment sale or in the proceeding upon the report
thereof, shall not be a defense to any of such suits. All such
decrees shall be enforced in the same manner as decrees of
said Court are authorized to be enforced by law.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1929.

Approved April 11, 1929.

CHAPTER 557.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 20

of Article 99 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title

"Water Fowl, Birds and Game, " sub-title "Upland and