LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1831.

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property — which entry or record, or a proved copy thereof shall
be received as evidence of such payment ; and it shall be the
duty of the collector or of any one of the commissioners afore-
said, to give said owner or claimant or any one in his behalf

Copy made
evidence.

demanding it, a certificate of the said payment containing the
particulars above prescribed for such entry as aforesaid, which
shall be signed by the grantor or grantors of the said certificate
and acknowledged by him or them before any justice of the
peace of the said county ; and such certificate shall be received
to be, and shall be recorded among the land records of said
county ; and a certified copy under seal of the county court of
the said county, shall be admitted as proof of such payment in
all courts of law and equity in this state. And if said commis-
sioners or any of them, or said collector shall on such payment
being tendered, refuse to receive the same, or if said collector or
any of the commissioners aforesaid, shall after receiving pay-

Certificate.

ment aforesard, refuse or fail on demand, to grant and acknow-
ledge such certificate as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for
any person, a credible witness to such payment or tender of
payment to make affidavit before any justice of the peace of said
county of such refusal or failure, and of such payment or tender
of payment having been made, specifying the name of the
claimant or owner aforesaid by or in whose behalf it shall have
been made and designating as aforesaid the property aforesaid ;
and such affidavit when recorded as aforesaid, and copies thereof
certified under seal of court as aforesaid, shall have effect as a

Case of
failure to re-
ceive such
payment.

certificate aforesaid, duly executed, acknowledged and recorded
as aforesaid, and as proof of such payment; and if said collector
or any of the commissioners aforesaid shall grant a certificate as
aforesaid, and shall not acknowledge the same as aforesaid, an
affidavit as aforesaid, before a justice of the peace of a credible
witness to the execution thereof subjoined to or endorsed on
said certificate, shall have the same effect as such acknowledge-

Or give cer-
tificate, &c.

ment ; and for the recording aforesaid, the clerk of the county
court shall be paid at the rate of his charges for recording con-
veyances of land.

Clerk's fees

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if the land or real estate so
sold, shall not be redeemed within the time and upon the con-
ditions specified in the foregoing section the collector or his
successor shall in the manner and form now prescribed by law,
execute a conveyance to the purchaser or purchasers, their heirs,
executors, administrators, or assigns of all such right, title, in-
terest and estate, to and in the land or real estate sold as afore-
said, as by virtue of said sale, the said purchaser or purchasers
shall be or shall have been entitled to claim.

Convey-
ance pre-
scribed.