ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 805

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new section be added to Article 57 of Bagby's
Annotated Code of Maryland, to be known as Section 17 and
to read as follows:

17. That all actions at any time hereafter to be brought
for any lands heretofore sold for taxes or special assessments
whereunto any person now has any title or cause to have or
pursue any such action, shall be taken within three years after
the passage of this Act; provided however that the right of
action is not now and will not be then barred by the now ex-
isting statute of limitations; and after the said three years
expire no person or any of his heirs, shall have or maintain any
action for any land so sold; and that all actions for any land
hereafter so sold shall be taken within five years after the
day of sale and at no time after five years; and no person that
now has any right or title of entry into any lands so sold shall
thereinto enter but within five years after the passage of this
Act; and that no person shall at any time hereafter make any
entry into any lands so sold but within five years next after
the day of sale. And it is further provided that this Act shall
not apply to minors, lunatics and persons non compos mentis
or convicts; but such persons must bring their action within
one year after the removal of their legal disability.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall apply
to Montgomery County, and that portion of Takoma Park situ-
ate in Prince George's County.

Approved April 11, 1929.

CHAPTER 273.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 25
of Article 11 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, Edition
of 1924, title "Banks and Trust Companies, " sub-title
"Banks, " so as to make Section 25 conform to Section 20 of
said Article, by providing for the payment by banks, before
starting business, of all of the capital stock provided for in
said Section 20.