1340 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 650

Whenever any real estate shall have been bought in, as
herein provided, by the Town of Glenarden, 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 Treasurer of Glenarden, as an
additional and cumulative means of enforcing the payment
of taxes, interest, penalties and costs against real estate,
which have accrued prior to the date of this Act, or which
shall hereafter accrue, and in no wise in derogation of the
remedy hereby given, may, 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 the town, for the taxes, interest, penalties
and costs so 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 suits, and if residents of the State of Mary-
land shall be personally served with process, and if non-resi-
dents shall be served with process, by publication, as is
provided by law in other equity cases.

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 were legally levied or made by said Mayor and Common
Council of Glenarden, any defect or irregularity in the tax
sale or in the proceeding upon the report thereof shall not
be a defense to any such suits, all such decrees shall be en-
forced by the sale of the real estate through a trustee ap-
pointed by the Court in the same manner as decrees of said
Court are authorized to be enforced by law. From the pro-
ceeds of the sale there shall be paid the proper costs and ex-
penses of such Court proceedings and sale; second, all Town,
Sanitary Commission, Park and Planning Commission, County
and State taxes and assessments with interest, penalties and
costs, and the balance, if any, paid to the owner or owners of
record or to a mortgagee or lienholder thereon, as their in-
terest may appear. If the proceeds of sale of any piece of
real estate should be insufficient to pay in full the Town, San-
itary Commission, Park and Planning Commission, County
and State taxes and assessments against the same,, then such
balance of proceeds shall be pro-rated between the Town,
Sanitary Commission, Park and Planning Commission, County
and State, in proportion to the amount clue at the time of
distribution to each of such jurisdictions on such pieces of