828 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 636

address be known or if it can be ascertained by the exercise of
reasonable diligence; and if said address cannot be so ascer-
tained, then such notice shall not be required to be given.

After deducting from the proceeds of the sale of such per-
sonal property the expense of making the same and the amount
of storage and any other repair or tow charges incurred by
said Superintendent during the period in which the same was
in his custody, and after the payment of all liens to which said
property was subject in the order of their priority, the balance
remaining, if any, shall be paid into the Pension Fund of said
Department; and all lost, abandoned, unclaimed or stolen
money shall also be paid into said Fund.

If the owner or the association, person, firm or corporation
entitled to any money in the custody of said Department or
to the possession of personal property, sold as aforesaid, shall
present to the Superintendent a claim, duly sworn to, for
such money at any time within three years from the date
when it came into the custody of said Department, or, at any
time within three years from the date of such sale, a similar
claim for the balance remaining from the proceeds of such
sale, the Superintendent shall cause to be paid from said
Pension Fund the amount of such money or of such balance,
without interest, in either case, to such claimant as may be
legally entitled thereto. If no claim for such sale or such
money is made within three years from the date of such sale
or from the date such money came into the custody of said
Department, such balance or such money shall become the
property of said Pension Fund in the same manner as other
sums contributed thereto in accordance with Section 31 of this
Article. All actions of replevin for the return of any such
personal property or money in the custody of said Superin-
tendent and all other suits or actions of a similar nature
arising by reason of his custody of said personal property
or money shall be brought within three years from the date
when the same came into the custody of said Superintendent
or be forever barred; provided, however, that this sentence
shall not be construed as implying that in the absence thereof
said Superintendent would be subject to suit or action of any
kind whatsoever and provided, further, that nothing herein
shall be construed to waive the immunity from suit or action
to which said Superintendent or said Department would be
entitled in the absence of this sentence.

The certificate, of the Superintendent of said Department
that he has sold any such personal property to a purchaser
as provided in this section shall constitute sufficient evidence
of title to any property so sold in order to enable any such
purchaser to obtain a certificate of title and registration from
the appropriate Commissioner, Commission or Department,