550                          LAWS OF MARYLAND.                 [CH. 200

report of all sales made by the said Town Clerk and Treasurer,
and final ratification thereof shall be made and had as herein
provided.

SEC. 15 (e). Any real estate sold under the provisions of
this Act may be redeemed within two years after the published
date of the sale thereof by the payment of the total amount
of the taxes and interest, penalties and costs for which the
same was sold, interest at twelve per centum per annum on
the amount of such sale from the date of sale, as published,
to the time of redemption, and all subsequent taxes and inter-
est, penalties and costs which shall have accrued thereon.

SEC. 15 (f). The sales of all real estate made by the said
Town Clerk and Treasurer for taxes so due and unpaid to
the said Mayor and Town Council shall be reported by him,
under a general oath as to their fairness, to the Circuit Court
for Prince George's County, sitting in equity. Said sales shall
be listed in separate paragraphs and numbered. The Clerk
of said Court, upon receiving said report shall docket a suit
in the equity docket of said court in the name of the "Town
Clerk and Treasurer of the Mayor and Town Council of Chev-
erly, " as plaintiff, against all of the persons or corporations
named in said report of sales, as defendants.

SEC. 15 (g). The Circuit Court for Prince George's Coun-
ty is hereby vested with full and complete jurisdiction to hear
and determine suits docketed upon said Town Clerk and Treas-
urer's reports as proceedings in rem as fully and completely
as it can hear and determine equity suits within its general
jurisdiction.

The said Town Clerk and Treasurer's report of sales shall
be considered and treated by the court as if it were a bill in
equity. Upon the filing of said report the said court, through
its clerk, shall issue an order of publication against each of
the persons or corporations named in said report, which order
of publication shall be drawn and published in accordance with
the provisions of the Laws of Maryland authorizing service of
process upon non-resident defendants by publication. Upon
it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that said order of
publication has been duly published and that the time fixed
by law for the defendants to appear and answer has expired,
the court shall proceed to hear and determine all questions
raised as to said tax sale or sales and shall enter such decree