J. MILLARD TAWES, Governor                      771

the Town of Upper Marlboro in said county, proceed to offer for sale
at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, each of said forfeited
parcels of real estate, as the property of the County Commissioners
of Prince George's County, beginning with the first parcel of said
list and continuing on in the order of said list from day
to day if necessary, from half-past ten o'clock A.M. to three
o'clock P.M., Sundays and legal holidays excepted, until all
have been offered for sale; and on said day of sale, said County
Treasurer shall proceed to make sale in conformity with his said
published notice.

(e)  No piece of such forfeited real estate offered for sale as afore-
said shall be sold for less than the total of the taxes, interest, penal-
ties and costs of sale, including such tax or taxes, interest and
penalties as would have been levied upon it had it remained on said
county assessment books, for which it is then liable; and if no such
bid for the same be made, it shall be withdrawn from such public
sale; thereafter said County Commissioners of Prince George's
County are authorized and empowered to sell the same, at public
or private sale, for such price as they may deem advisable, and upon
payment of the whole purchase money for any parcel of forfeited
real estate sold as aforesaid, and not before, to said County Com-
missioners, the County Commissioners shall execute to the purchaser
thereof a good deed in fee-simple thereof. But the owner or owners
of any parcel of real estate, forfeited, or forfeited and sold, as
hereinbefore provided, may at any time, prior to the actual payment
of the purchase money for such parcel of real estate by the purchaser,
pay to said County Treasurer for the time being, the total of all
taxes, interest, penalties and costs of sale due and accrued to date
on account of, upon and against such parcel of real estate, including
such tax or taxes, interest and penalties as would have been levied
upon it had it remained on said County assessment books, and there-
upon such forfeiture or forfeiture and sale shall cease to be of any
force and effect and become null and void; and such owner or owners
shall become revested of his, her or their former right, title, claim,
interest and demand at law or in equity of, in and to such parcel of
real estate.

(f)  The right of redemption hereby given shall apply to any and
all forfeitures and forfeitures and sales of real estate, whether here-
tofore occurred or hereafter to occur, and any and all such redemp-
tions heretofore made are hereby ratified and confirmed; and when-
ever said County Treasurer acting under a formal order in writing
of said County Commissioners has heretofore received and receipted
for the taxes, interest, penalties and costs due upon any piece or
parcel of ground heretofore sold to the County Commissioners for
want of a satisfactory bid, the forfeiture of said property shall
thereupon cease as fully as if said property had not been so sold
to the said County Commissioners. Upon such redemption, said
County Treasurer for the time being, shall enter upon the proper
books of his office and upon the report of sale relating to such parcel
of real estate redeemed, the date and fact of such redemption. Said
County Commissioners of Prince George's County are also authorized
to refund to any delinquent taxpayer or taxpayers the residue of the
proceeds of sale of his, her or their parcel of real estate heretofore
or hereafter forfeited, and sold by them as aforesaid, after deducting