PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. 3815

1929, ch. 141, sec. 16.

302. Upon the demand of any owner or owners, of real estate so sold
for taxes and/or assessments, the said treasurer shall pay to him or them
the difference between the amount of the purchase price of any piece or
pieces of real estate so sold at tax and/or assessment sale and the taxes,
assessments, interest, penalties and costs and all accrued taxes, assessments,
interest, penalties and costs on said real estate, due and payable to the said
Cottage City Commission or the town of Cottage City.

1929, ch. 141, sec. 17.

303. Taxes on personal property shall be collected as is now provided
by law for the collection of such taxes due Prince George's County.

1929, ch. 141, sec. 18.

304. Whenever any real estate shall have been bought in, as herein
provided, by the Cottage City Commission, at any tax and/or assessment
sale made under the provisions of this Act and the same shall not have
been redeemed within the time provided for the redemption thereof, and
not set aside by the Court for defects in the levying of such taxes or the
making of such assessments, the said town of Cottage City, as an addi-
tional and cumulative means of enforcing the payment of taxes and/or
special assessments, interest, penalties and costs against real estate, which
have accrued prior to the date of this Act, or which shall thereafter accrue,
and in no wise in derogation of the remedy hereby given, may, within six
months after the time of redemption has expired, file a plenary proceed-
ing in equity in the Circuit Court for Prince George's County, Maryland,
to reaffirm and finally establish a lien upon said respective pieces of real
estate so sold to it, for the taxes and/or assessments, interest, penalties
and costs so assessed and charged against the same and to obtain a decree
for the enforcement thereof. The owner or owners of each piece of real
estate upon which such taxes and/or assessments, interest, penalties and
costs are sought to be enforced, shall be made parties defendant in said
suit, and, if residents of the State of Maryland, shall be personally served
with process, and if non-residents, shall be served with process by publi-
cation, as is provided by law.

The said Court is hereby given jurisdiction to hear and determine such
causes, establish such liens and decree the enforcement thereof. If said
Court shall determine that said taxes and/ or assessments were legally
levied or made by said Cottage City Commission, any defect or irregularity
in the tax and/or assessment sale or in the proceeding upon the report
thereof, shall not be a defense to any of such suits. All such decrees shall
be enforced in the same manner as decrees of said Court are authorized to
be enforced by law.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.

1929, ch. 171, sec. 1.

305. The town of Cottage City, in Prince George's County, Maryland,
a municipal corporation, and the Cottage City Commission is hereby au-
thorized, empowered and directed to levy and collect annually a special