LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1813,

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due and legal notice, to sell the same at public sale, in the same
manner as if the said good or chattels, lands or tenements, had
been seized and taken by such sheriff or coroner, upon a writ
of fieri facias to him directed and delivered for that purpose, and
shall make return thereof to the court from whence the said
writ of venditioni exponas shall have issued, and such sheriff
or coroner shall be liable to be proceeded against, and his bond
as sheriff or coroner shall be answerable in the same manner for
any neglect of duty of such sheriff or coroner, as on other writs
of venditioni exponas to them directed and delivered.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any sale so to be made by
any sheriff or coroner, in virtue of any such writ of venditioni
exponas as aforesaid, shall be as valid and effectual as if the
same had been made by the sheriff, coroner or elisor, who had
seized and taken the said goods or chattels, lands or tenements,
under the writ of fieri facias.

Sales shall
be valid.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That in case of the sale of any
lands or tenements under and in virtue of any writ of venditioni
exponas as above mentioned, the sheriff or coroner who shall
have sold the same shall execute to the purchaser or purchasers
thereof a deed of conveyance therefor, and such deed of convey-
ance being acknowledged and recorded according to law shall
be as operative in law to every intent as if the sheriff or coro-
nor, in virtue of a writ of fieri facias to him directed and deliver-
ed for that purpose, had seized and taken such lands or tene-
ments and exposed the same to sale as aforesaid.

Sheriff to
execute a
deed.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That in case any sheriff, coroner
or elisor, hath made or shall make sale of any lands or tene-
ments, and hath died without executing a deed of conveyance
to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, it shall and may be law-
ful for the court, out of which the writ of fieri facias or vendi-
tioni exponas, (as the case may be,) hath issued or shall issue,
on application of the purchaser or purchasers, or his or their
legal representatives, to order and direct the sheriff for the time
being, or some one of the coroners, (as the case may be,) of the
county in which the said lands or tenements sold as aforesaid
may lie, to execute a deed of conveyance to the purchaser or
purchasers, his or their legal representatives, for the lands or
tenements sold and purchased as aforesaid, and such deed of
conveyance, being acknowledged and recorded according to
law, shall be as operative in law, to every intent, as if the sheriff,
coroner or elisor, who made or shall make such sale, had in his
life-time executed the said deed of conveyance.

Sheriff; &c.
dying be-
fore execut-
ing a deed,
court to
direct a
deed to bo
executed.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That in case any sheriff, coroner
or elisor, shall die without having made sale of the goods or
chattels, lands or tenements, seized and taken under and in

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Sale not
being made
at death of
sheriff, &c..