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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1815.

Interme-
diate terms.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the county courts in their
discretion may appoint intermediate terms between the common
law terms in the respective counties, for the transaction of busi-
ness on the equity side of the court, to which said terms process
shall be returnable, as well as to the stated terms of the court.

Act
declared
permanent.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted. That the act entitled, an additional
supplement to the act, entitled, an act respecting the equity
jurisdiction of the county courts, passed at December session,

* Ch. 94.

eighteen hundred and fourteen,* to which this is a further
supplement, be and the same is hereby declared to be permanent.

Repeal.

SEC, 10. And be it enacted, That every thing contained in
the said additional supplement repugnant to, or inconsistent
with, the provisions of this act, be and the same is hereby
repealed.

CHAPTER 171.

AN ACT to authorize the Collectors of the County Taxes of the several
counties of this state to execute Deeds of Conveyance in cases therein
mentioned.
See 1797, ch. 90, ante page 351.

Collectors
to execute
deeds in
certain
cases.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in all cases where any collector of the county taxes hath
made or shall make sale of any lands or tenements, for the
taxes due thereon, and hath or shall die or remove from said
county without making a deed of conveyance of the same, or
shall refuse to make a deed for the same, the commissioners of
the tax of such county, upon application of the purchaser or
purchasers, or his, her or their legal fepresentatives, shall order
and direct the collector for the time being in such county, to
execute a deed of conveyance to such purchaser or purchasers,
or his, her or their legal representatives, for the lands sold and
purchased as aforesaid.

Deeds to be
valid.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That such deed of conveyance,
being acknowledged and recorded according to law, shall be as
operative and of equal force in law, as if the collector, who made
or shall make such sale, had executed the said deed of con-
veyance.

CHAPTER 173.

AN ACT to authorize the Sheriffs and Collectors of the several counties of
this state to complete their Collections, and for other purposes.
Other law 1820, ch. 48.
SEC. 1. This section has ceased to have any operation.

Time for
collection
extended.

SEO. 2. And be it enacted, That hereafter the sheriffs and
collectors of taxes of the several counties of this state, be and
they jure hereby allowed the term of one year after the expira-
tion of the times for which they shall have been respectively