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such part thereof as the heirs may not elect to take, shall be sold
by the said commissioners, or a majority of them, for money or
upon credit, and in the manner and agreeably to the terms and
conditions which the court from which the commission issued
shall prescribe and direct; and no sale so to be made shall be
valid until ratified by the said court, and the purchase money
shall be justly divided among the several persons interested, ac-
cording to their respective titles to the estate.

53. But if all the parties entitled shall be minors at the death
of the intestate, the estate shall not be sold until the eldest
arrives to age, and the profits of the estate shall be equally di-
vided in the mean time.

54. When the estate of an intestate shall be sold on a credit,
bonds shall be taken for the purchase money from the purchaser
or purchasers, by the commissioners, with security, and made
payable to each representative respectively, according to his pro-
portional part of the net amount of sales, with interest thereon
from the day of sale, and in such instalments as the court shall
direct; which bonds shall remain and be a lien on the lands for
the purchase of which they were given, until the said bonds shall
be paid.

55. It shall not be necessary, if the court shall deem it to be
the interest of all persons concerned, for the purchaser of any part
of the real estate of any person dying intestate, which may be
sold by commissioners, or where any one or more of the repre-
sentatives of such intestate shall elect to take the same, or any
part thereof, at the valuation made by commissioners, to give
bond to each of the representatives of such intestate; but such
purchaser or person who may elect to take such real estate, or any
part thereof, may give bond to the State of Maryland, in such
penalty and with such sureties as the court shall direct and
approve, conditioned for the payment of the amount of the valu-
ation or purchase money, (as the case may be,) to the legal repre-
sentatives of such intestate, in such proportions as each may
be entitled to, agreeably to the order of the court; which bond
shall be and remain a lien on the said real estate until the money
intended to be secured thereby shall be wholly paid, and the said
bond shall be recorded among the records of the court from
which the commission may have issued; and upon such bond, or
any office copy thereof suit or suits may be instituted against the