Assistance for the recovery of rent on land.

For the purpose of the recovery of any amount due on account of rent from any person to a municipality in respect of any land vested in or otherwise held by such municipality, the municipality shall be deemed to be a superior holder and every such person an inferior holder of such land, within the meaning of sections 86 and 87 of the Land Revenue Code, and the municipality as superior holder shall be entitled, for the recovery of every such amount, to all the assistance to which under the said sections a superior holder is entitled for the recovery of rent or land revenue payable to him by an interior holder.