1350 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 761

the original certificate of sale or a certified or photostatic copy
thereof may be used.

90C. PARTIES. The plaintiff in any proceeding to foreclose
the right of redemption shall be the holder of the certificate
of sale. The defendants in any such proceeding shall be the
the following:

(a) The owner of the property as disclosed by a search of
the Land Records of the County, of the records of the Register
of Wills of the County, and of the records of any court of law
or equity of the County.

(b) If the property be subject to a ground rent, the parties
defendant shall be the owner of the fee simple title and the
owner of the leasehold title as disclosed by a search of the
Land Records of the County, of the records of the Register of
Wills of the County and of the records of any court of law or
equity of the County.

(e) Any mortgagee of the property or his assignee of record,
named as such in any unreleased mortgage recorded among
the Land Records of the County.

(d) The State of Maryland may be made a party defendant
in any action to foreclose the right of redemption.

It shall not be necessary to name as defendant any other
person having or claiming to have any right, title, interest,
claim, lien or equity of redemption in and to the property
sold by the Collector. Any or all of such persons may be in-
cluded as defendants by the designation "all persons having
or claiming to have any interest in property................

(giving a description of the property in substantially the
same form as the description which appears on the Collector's
tax bill). '' Any or all such persons may be designated
throughout the proceeding by the above designation and the
cause may proceed against them by publication under order of
court as hereinafter provided.

90D. UNKNOWN OWNER. In any case in which an owner
cannot be ascertained as provided in Section 90C, the unknown
owner of the property may be included as party defendant
by the following designation: "Unknown owner of property
.............................. (giving a description of the

property in substantially the same form as the description
which appears on the Collector's tax roll), his heirs, devisees,
and personal representatives and their or any of their heirs,
devisees, executors, administrators, grantees, assigns, or suc-
cessors in right, title and interest, " and any such unknown
owner shall be so designated throughout the proceeding, and