786 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 613

and assessments, interest, penalties and costs for which the
same was sold, interest at ten per centum per annum on the
amount of such sale from the date of sale, as published, to the
time of redemption, and all subsequent taxes, interest, penal-
ties and costs which shall have accrued thereon.

The sales of all real estate made by the said Treasurer for
taxes so due and unpaid to the said town shall be reported by
him, under a general oath as to their fairness, to the Circuit
Court for Prince George's County, sitting in equity. Said
sales shall be listed in separate paragraphs and numbered.
The Clerk of said Court, upon receiving said report, shall
docket a suit on the equity docket of said Court in the name
of the "Treasurer of the Town" as plaintiff, against all of the
persons or corporations named in said report of sales, as de-
fendants.

70C. The Circuit Court for Prince George's County is hereby
vested with full and complete jurisdiction to hear and deter-
mine suits docketed upon said Treasurer's report as proceed-
ings in rem as fully and completely as it can hear and determine
equity suits within its general jurisdiction.

The said Treasurer's report of sales shall be considered and
treated by the Court as if it were a bill in equity. Upon the
filing of said report the said Court, through its Clerk, shall
issue an order of publication against each of the persons or
corporations named in said report, which order of publication
shall be drawn and published in accordance with the provisions
of the laws of Maryland, authorizing service of process upon
non-resident defendants by publication. Upon it appearing to
the satisfaction of the Court that said order of publication
has been duly published, and that the time fixed by law for the
defendants to appear and answer has expired, the Court shall
proceed to hear and determine all questions raised as to said
tax sale or sales, and shall enter such decree or decrees as the
nature of the case may require. A substantial compliance with
the provisions of this Act, by the said Treasurer, in making
such tax sale or sales, and reporting the same to the Court,
shall be deemed to be a sufficient compliance therewith.

An appeal from a final decree of said Court may be taken by
any party having an interest in any piece of real estate de-
scribed in said report, to the Court of Appeals of Maryland,
but such appeal shall apply only to the real estate of the
parties appealing, the decree or decrees rendered in said cause
otherwise to remain in full force and effect.

Whenever the Court shall set aside any sale for taxes so
reported, the taxes, interest and penalties accrued against each
separate piece of real estate, in reference to which said sale has
been set aside, shall remain a lien upon said real estate and,