HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 939

as aforesaid, all persons having any right, title, interest,
claim, lien or equity of redemption in the property shall
be bound by the decree of court which may be passed in
the case as if they were personally served with process.
The order of publication shall be in substantially the fol-
lowing form:

Order of Publication

The object of this proceeding is to secure the foreclosure
of all rights of redemption in the following property............ in

the City of Baltimore, sold by the Collector of Taxes for
Baltimore City and the State of Maryland to the plaintiff
in this proceeding:

The bill states, among other things, that the amount......

necessary for redemption h............ not been paid, although

more than a year and a day from the date of sale has
expired.

It is thereupon this............................ day of..........................................

19............. by the Circuit Court............... —.. -................ of Baltimore

City,

ORDERED, That notice be given by the insertion of a
copy of this Order in one daily newspaper published in
Baltimore City once a week for four successive weeks,
warning all persons interested in the said property to be
and appear in this Court by the........... —........ -..... day of........................

......................................... 19............. and redeem the property............ or

answer the bill or thereafter a final decree will be rendered
foreclosing all rights of redemption in the property, and
vesting in the plaintiff a title, free and clear of all encum-
brances.

Section 62K. Foreclosure Against Several Properties
in One Proceeding. Any single holder of certificates of
sale relating to several properties in the City of Baltimore
may include and join in one proceeding any number of the
said certificates.

Section 62L. Validity of Taxes and Sale Therefor Pre-
sumed Unless Attacked in Answer. In any proceeding to
foreclose the right of redemption, it shall not be necessary
to plead or prove the various steps, procedure and notices
for the assessment and levy of the taxes or other municipal
liens for which the property was sold or the proceedings
taken by the Collector to sell the property. The validity
of all such procedure shall be conclusively presumed unless
a defendant in the proceeding shall, by answer, set up as a
defense thereto the invalidity of the taxes or other munici-
pal liens or the invalidity of the proceedings to sell or the