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64. If the purchaser of such real estate shall die without
having procured a deed from the collector, the collector may
convey the said real estate to the devisees or heirs of the pur-
chaser.

65. If lands shall be sold by a collector for State, county or
city taxes, and the collector shall die, remove or refuse to make
a deed, the same may be made by the county commissioners or
by the Mayor of the city of Baltimore, to have the same effect
as if made by the collector himself.

66. In all cases where personal property is sold by a collector,
he shall deliver possession thereof to the purchaser; but if the
property is not present, or if for any other cause the collector
cannot deliver possession thereof, the purchaser may recover pos-
session by action of replevin, together with damages for the
detention thereof from the time of sale, or may recover the value
thereof, and damages in an action of trover.

67. Whenever personal property that has been assessed as the
property of any individual in any collection district, shall be
removed before the tax levied thereon has been collected, the
collector in whose hands the levy is, may pursue said property
and collect said tax in the same manner as if the property
remained in his district.

68. If any person shall resist, strike or menace with violence,
any collector in the discharge of his duties, or shall resist, attack
or menace with violence, any person present and bidding, or pro-
posing to bid at any sale of property by a collector, the said
collector may summon for his defence, the posse comitatus, and
each person so summoned shall be allowed fifty cents per day, to
be levied on the county or city as other charges; and if any
person summoned shall refuse to serve, he shall be liable to a fine
of five dollars, to be recovered before a justice of the peace, one-
half to the use of the party prosecuting, and the other half to
the county or city.

69. If any person shall strike or assault a collector in the
discharge of his duty, or shall strike or assault any person
serving as one of the posse comitatus, or shall strike or assault
any person to deter or prevent his bidding at a collector's
sale, or for having bid at such sale, he shall be subject to a
fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred