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ALLEGANY COUNTY.

whenever a constable or any other person shall be summoned

for the purpose of so aiding and assisting, he shall be entitled to

fifty cents as a compensation for his services, and six and a

fourth cents per mile for every mile he may travel, after the

first four miles, to be taxed in the costs against the defendant.

COUNTY CHARGES.

The laws on this subject, were 1796, ch. 8; 1799, ch. 74; 1818, ch. 185;

1826, ch. 100.

AN ACT for the Security of Purchasers of Land Sold by the Collectors

for the payment of Taxes in Allegany County, subsequent to the passage

of an Act, passed at December session, eighteen hundred and eighteen,

chapter one hundred and eighty-five, entitled, a further additional sup-

plement to an Act, entitled, an Act for the more effectual collection of

the county charges in Ailegany County — 1834, ch. 44.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, it has been found by experience that through

some defect, irregularity, omission or mistake in the proceedings

enjoined upon the collectors and others, by the several laws

heretofore passed respecting the sale of lands in Ailegany county,

for the payment of the county charges thereon, the purchasers at

such sales are made insecure in their title to the lands sold ;

therefore,

Case of

SEC. 1. Be it enacted , by the General Assembly of Maryland,

purchase,
&c and

That in all cases where purchases have been made under the law,

due publi-

entitled, an act for the more effectual collection of the county

cation.

charges in Allegauy county, since the passage of a further ad-

ditional supplementary act thereto at December session eighteen

hundred and eighteen, chapter one hundred and eighty-five, and

where no decisions have been made in the county court touch-

ing the validity of titles thus acquired, or where suits are now

pending touching the validity of such titles, if the purchasers,

their heirs, executors, administrators or assigns do and shall

cause advertisements to be inserted in the newspapers published

in the town of Cumberland, and one in the city of Baltimore,

and one in the city of Washington and one on the eastern

shore of this state, once a week for eight successive weeks, fully

Title

describing the land and the owner's name, where it is known,

confirmed.

and the time of purchase, with the amount they have paid for

the same, the title acquired from the collector shall be as good

.

and available in law as if the sale had been made by its original

and real owner; Provided nevertheless, that if the person or

persons having such original and real title, or whose interest in

such lands, may have been sold, shall, within two years from

the date of such advertisements, pay or tender to be paid to the

purchaser or purchasers of such lands, his, her, or their heirs,

representatives or assigns, the amount of the money paid by such

purchaser or purchasers, and all taxes subsequently paid thereon.