572 REVENUE AND TAXES. [ART. 81.

county, or any or all of them, in the discretion of the State's
Attorney, and the proceedings on such attachments shall in all
respects be the same as in other attachments on judgments
or decrees.

86. Whenever real estate or property of any description shall
have been seized and taken in execution at the suit of the State,
the State's Attorney for the proper county or the city of Balti-
more may bid for and purchase the same at the sale thereof for
the use of the State, if in his opinion it shall be necessary and
proper to do so for the protection of the interests of the State;
Provided, the sum bid shall in no case exceed the amount of the
State's demand, and the costs and expenses of sale.

87. Whenever the State's Attorney shall purchase any property
under the last preceding section, he may sell or lease the same,
and may recover any money due the State by such sale or lease
by sale or distress; and he may in case of a sale execute a deed
for the property sold upon a compliance by the purchaser with
the terms of sale; and the treasurer shall pay the cost of adver-
tising such property as may remain unsold; but nothing herein
contained shall deprive any party of the right of redemption
given in this article.

88. If any collector of county or city taxes shall refuse or
neglect to pay over any money he has received or collected, or
ought to have collected, the person entitled to receive the same
may apply to the Circuit Court of the county or the court of law
in Baltimore city having jurisdiction over the amount claimed,
and such court shall render judgment against such collector for
the amount due from him; Provided, that no such judgment shall
be entered unless the person applying for the same shall exhibit
to the court an account of the sum due, verified by affidavit, and
such other proof as the court may require, and shall also prove
to the satisfaction of the court, that he has served a copy of such
account on said collector and demanded payment thereof at least
twenty days before the meeting of the court at which the appli-
cation is made.

89. If such collector shall controvert the demand, and desire a
jury to be empanelled, the court shall direct a jury to be imme-
diately empanelled to try an issue whether the said collector be
chargeable with and liable to pay any and what sum of money
to the person so claiming and authorized to receive the same,