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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 ob-
tain a decree for the enforcement thereof. The owner or owners
of each piece of real estate upon which such taxes and/or as-
sessments, interest, penalties and costs sought to be enforced,
shall be made parties defendant in said suit, and if residents
of the State of Maryland be personally served with process,
and if non-residents, shall be served with process by publica-
tion, as is provided by law. The said court is hereby given
jurisdiction to hear and determine such causes, establish such
liens and decree the enforcement thereof. If said court shall
determine that said taxes and/or assessments were legally
levied or made by said Town Commissioners of La Plata, 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 of such suits. All such decrees shall be enforced in the
same manner as decrees of said court are authorized to be en-
forced by law.

184K. Taxes on personal property shall be collected by the
hereinbefore mentioned treasurer, as is now provided by law
for the collection of such taxes due Charles County.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That all Acts or parts
of Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed to the extent
of such inconsistency.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1st, 1931.

Approved April 6, 1931.

CHAPTER 61.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments Sections
175 and 201 of Article 9 of the Code of Public Local Laws
(1930 Edition), title "Charles County, " sub-title "La Plata"
and to add two new sections to said Article said new sec-
tions to be known as Sections 175A and 201A and to follow
immediately after Section 175 and 201 respectively, to