850                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [CH. 390

CHAPTER 390
(House Bill 996)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 207 and
209 of Article 18 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1930 Edition), title "Queen Anne's County," subtitle "County
Treasurer," said sections having been last amended by Chapter
305 of the Acts of 1957, to provide that real property sold at tax
sales in Queen Anne's County shall be subject to certain easements,
restrictions and dedications and declaring this Act to be an
emergency measure.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 207 and 209 of Article 18 of the Code of Public Local
Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Queen Anne's County,"
subtitle "County Treasurer," as said sections were last amended by
Chapter 305 of the Acts of 1957, be and they are hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

207.

The said County Treasurer shall within thirty days after the close
of such sales report the same to the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's
County, in Equity, setting forth in a brief and concise manner his
proceedings in the premises, showing to whom and at what price
such several parcels were respectively sold, the amount of taxes and
interest accrued, the pro rata cost of advertising such sale, the
County Treasurer's fees and all other charges, costs, fees, and ex-
penses, incident to said sale and the surplus fund in each instance
with which report he shall file a certified copy of the printed notice
of sale, and he shall not be required to file with said report any copy
or certified copy of the list or published list of delinquents or other
notices, but the affidavit of the said County Treasurer as to the due
publication of the list of delinquents and the mailing and/or delivery
of notices to the delinquents shall be sufficient and prima facie as to
the performance thereof, which said affidavit shall be appended to
said report. The said Court shall examine the said proceedings, and
if the said proceedings appear to be regular and the provisions of
law in relation thereto have been substantially complied with, shall
enter in one Order Nisi, similar to and published in the same manner
as in the case of judicial sales by trustees, warning all persons in-
terested in the property sold to appear on or before the day desig-
nated in such order to show cause why the same should not be finally
ratified and confirmed on a day to be designated in said order which
shall not be less than thirty nor more than sixty days from the date
of the order. The purchaser at any such sale shall be deemed to be
a party in interest in the same manner as a purchaser at an ordinary
judicial sale. Such Order Nisi shall be published in such manner as
the Court shall direct but not less than once a week for four suc-
cessive weeks. After hearing exceptions, if any, the Court in its
discretion shall in one order finally rat