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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 de-
termine such causes, establish such liens and decree the en-
forcement thereof. If said Court shall determine that said
taxes and/or assessments were legally levied or made by said
Cottage City Commission, any defect or irregularity in the
tax and/or assessment sale or in the proceeding upon the re-
port 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. 19. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1929.

Approved April 11, 1929.

CHAPTER 142.

AN ACT to amend the Charter of the Town of Brentwood,
Maryland, as enacted by Chapter 153 of the Acts of the
General Assembly of Maryland of 1922, as amended by
Chapters 167 and 177 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland of 1927, by repealing and re-enacting, with
amendments, Sections 5, 8, and 18A thereof, and by adding
two new sections to be known as Sections 7D and 7E, pro-
viding for a longer term of office for Mayor and Treasurer;
providing for changing the period of time within which a
candidates for elective office shall file nominating petition;
providing for distribution of costs of street intersections and
for equitable adjustments of street improvement assess-
ments; providing for filling of vacancies occurring in the
elective offices and providing for removal of any elective
officer by impeachment.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Sections 5, 8, and 18A of Chapter 153 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1922, as amended
by Chapters 167 and 177 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland of 1927, be and the same are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows: