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such grantees may be legally acquired, under and by virtue of
any such sale; Provided, such sale be ratified and confirmed
agreeably to law.

14. If any constable to whom any execution has issued from
any justice of the peace shall die without having made any
levy thereunder, the securities of said constable on the bond
which would be liable under the said execution may return the
said execution to the justice issuing the same, or any other
justice of the peace of the same county, if the justice issuing
the same shall have died or is not in office, with the endorse-
ment of the fact thereon, and the justice to whom such execu-
tion shall be returned, shall have power to issue another execu-
tion, upon being furnished with a copy of the judgment upon
which the execution was issued, if he is not the justice who ren-
dered the judgment.

15. If the constable shall die after having taken in execution
any property, real or personal, before making sale thereof, his
security or other person interested in behalf of said deceased
constable, or the plaintiff, or other person interested on behalf
of the plaintiff, may have a new writ of fieri facias or venditioni
exponas, as the case may require, issued by the same or some
other justice of the county, directed to any constable of the
' county, and under such new writ the constable shall seize and
take, and sell and convey the property taken in execution by
the deceased constable, in the same manner as the deceased
constable might have done if he had lived,

16. If any constable shall sell any lands and tenements, and
shall die or remove beyond the limits of the county, without exe-
cuting a deed of conveyance to the purchaser thereof, the judge
of the Circuit Court for the county in which the lands lie, or the
judge of the Superior Court of Baltimore city, if the lands lie in
said city, on application by petition in writing by the purchaser
or his legal representatives, may appoint some person to execute
and deliver the deed to the purchaser, or his legal representatives,
for the lands and tenements so sold, and such deed, if the sale
has been confirmed by the court, shall be as valid as if executed
by the constable who made the sale.

17. If a constable shall die without having made sale of pro-
perty taken in execution, his executor or administrator shall not
receive more than one-half the usual poundage fees, and the con-