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informally described in the schedule returned by such sheriff,
the court from which such execution issued, or the judge thereof
during the recess, shall order the schedule and return of any
such sheriff to be amended so as to describe with sufficient
certainty the property purporting to be taken in virtue of such
writ.

28. If any sheriff shall make sale of any lands or tenements,
and shall die without executing a deed of conveyance to the
purchaser, the court out of which the execution issued, under
which the lands were sold, may on the application of the pur-
chaser, or his legal representative, order and direct the sheriff
for the time being, or some one of the coroners, (as the case
may be,) of the county or city in which the lands or tenements
lie, to execute a deed of conveyance to the purchaser, or his
legal representative; this to apply to all officers making sales
under executions.

29. Any deed made by a sheriff, for any lands, or any estate,
or interest therein sold by him under an execution, issued by a
justice of the peace, shall have the same effect as a deed made
by a constable under similar circumstances.

30. If any sheriff shall have taken property in execution and
shall fail to make sale thereof for five years, or shall be in in-
solvent circumstances, the person for whose use such execution
was issued, may in cither case have a venditioni exponas issued
to the sheriff for the time being.

31. The sheriff shall execute the sentence of death pronounced
against any criminal by the judgment of any court of this
State, whenever he is authorized to do so by the warrant of the
Governor.

32. Every person convicted in any court of this State, and
sentenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary, shall as
soon as possible after conviction be safely removed by the sheriff
of the county where such conviction took place, and at the ex-
pense of such county, to the penitentiary; and every sheriff
failing to comply with the provisions of this section, shall forfeit
one thousand dollars.