506                          LAWS OF MARYLAND.                 [CH. 190

of the purchase price of any piece or pieces of real estate so
sold at tax and/or assessment sale and the taxes, assessments,
interest, penalties and costs and all accrued taxes, assessments,
interest, penalties and costs on said real estate, due and pay-
able to the said Mayor and Council of Colmar Manor.

257K. Taxes on personal property shall be collected as is
now provided by law for the collection of such taxes due Prince
George's County.

257L. Whenever any real estate shall have been bought in,
as herein provided, by the Mayor and Council of Colmar
Manor, at any tax and/or assessment sale made under the pro-
visions 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 Coun-
cil, as an additional and cumulative means of enforcing the
payment of taxes and/or special assessments, interest, penalties
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
proceeding1 in equity in the Circuit Court for Prince George's
County, Maryland, to reaffirm 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 suits, 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 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
Mayor and 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 such suits. All such de-
crees shall be enforced in the same manner as decrees of said
court are authorized to be enforced by law.