Last sentence of subsection (a) of section 9, act of June 26, 1931 (P.L.1379, No. 348), entitled, as amended, "An act creating in counties of the second A and third class a board for the assessment and revision of taxes; providing for the appointment of the members of such board by the county commissioners; providing for their salaries, payable by the county; abolishing existing boards; defining the powers and duties of such board; regulating the assessment of persons, property, and occupations for county, borough, town, township, school, and poor purposes; authorizing the appointment of subordinate assessors, a solicitor, engineers, and clerks; providing for their compensation, payable by such counties; abolishing the office of ward, borough, and township assessors, so far as the making of assessments and valuations for taxation is concerned; and providing for the acceptance of this act by cities," which reads as follows: "From the decision of the court, an appeal may be taken as now provided by law and the taxable and/or taxing district having an interest therein who participated in the hearing before the court of common pleas shall be named as the appellees in any such appellate appeal," is repealed. The repeal of the former first sentence of subsection (a) of section 9 of the act is hereby confirmed.
42 P.S. § 20014