ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 75

Session 1922, to be known as Section 20 and to follow imme-
diately after Section 19 of said Chapter 88 and to read as
follows:

Section 20. No piece of real estate, offered at tax sale,
shall be sold for less than the total of the taxes, interest, penal-
ties 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 Mayor and
Common Council of Mt. Rainier, Maryland, for such total
amount thereof. In such case it shall remain on the assess-
ment books of the town, of Mt. Rainier and be taxed as other
properties thereon, but not be resold at the succeeding annual
tax sales. The 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 shall not
be redeemed within the two years and a day 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 subse-
quent 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 Mayor and Common Council of Mt,
Rainier, Maryland, without the execution of any deed there-
for. After each period of forfeiture the Town Clerk and
Treasurer, for the time being, shall make up a list of all such
forfeited properties, which list shall be inserted weekly for
two consecutive weeks before the day of sale hereinafter pro-
vided for in a weekly newspaper published in the town of Mt.
Rainier, Maryland, and if there be no such paper or if the
charges of such paper for said advertising be in excess of the
standard rate heretofore adopted by newspaper editors of
Prince George's County for similar advertising, then in a
newspaper published in Prince George's County which has a
circulation in the town of Mt. Rainier, which notice shall state
the name of the party in whom the property is assessed, if any,
the amount of taxes due, with interest and costs, also, a de-
scription of the property sufficient to identify the same. To
such list shall be appended a notice that on a certain day, to
be named therein, said Town Clerk and Treasurer of Mt.
Rainier will at some public place in said town named in said
notice, commencing at ten o'clock A. M., proceed to offer for
sale, at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, each
of the said forfeited parcels of real estate as the property of
the Mayor and Common Council of Mt. Rainier, Maryland,
beginning with the first parcel on said list and continuing on