HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1245

the difference between the amount of the purchase price of
any piece or pieces of real estate so sold at tax sale and the
taxes, interest, penalties and costs, and all accrued taxes,
interest, penalties and costs on said real estate, due and pay-
able to the said Hillside Commission.

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

Whenever any real estate shall have been bought in, as
herein provided, by the Hillside Commission, at any tax sale
made under the provisions of this Act, and the same shall not
have been redeemed within the time provided for the redemp-
tion thereof, and not set aside by the Court for defects in
the levying of such taxes, the said Hillside Commission, as an
additional and cumulative means of enforcing the payment
of taxes, interests, penalties and costs against real estate,
which have accrued, or which shall thereafter accrue, and in
no wise in derogation of the remedy hereby given may, within
six (6) months after the time of redemption has expired, file
a plenary proceeding 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, 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, interest, penalties and
costs are sought to be enforced shall be made parties de-
fendant in said suit, and if residents of the State of Mary-
land shall be personally served with process, and if non-
residents shall be served with process by publication, as if
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 were legally levied or made by said Hillside Commis-
sion, any defect or irregularity in the tax sale or in the pro-
ceeding 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 enforced
by law.

(E) That said Town Treasurer shall make, at each regular
monthly meeting of said Commission, a monthly written re-
port to the Hillside Commission, which said report shall state,
in itemized form, all receipts and disbursements of town money
coming into his hands, which monthly report shall be signed
and sworn to, as being a complete and accurate report, by
said Town Treasurer before said Secretary Commissioner.