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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

said commissioners, mayor or president may, in

writing, order that the sale of the property dis-

trained shall be suspended for any time not exceed-

ing ten days, and appoint a day and place for the

person distraining said property to exhibit his claim

Shall adjudge
the sum due

before the county commissioners or Mayor and City

Council; and the said county commissioners, or

.

Mayor and City Council, shall adjudge the sum due

for which distress may rightfully be made, beyond

which no sale shall be made of the goods in such

case,, and may; if the distress shall appear to them

excessive, order such part of the goods as they may

think proper and just, to be immediately released,

and may order either party to pay the costs.

Shall pass the

SEC. 54. Any sale of lands by a collector, where

title.

the owners are described as the heirs of a named

person, shall pass the title as fully as if such heirs

were each named in the proceedings by his proper

name.

SEC. 55. Whenever real estate shall be sold by a

collector, the owner thereof, prior to the sale, may

May redeem.

redeem the same by paying into court, to be paid to

the purchaser thereof, within the period of twelve

calendar months from the date of such sale, the

amount of the purchase money, with interest thereon

at the rate of fifteen per cent, per annum from the

date of the sale.

SEC. 56. If the purchaser of such real estate shall

Failure pro-
cure deed

die without having procured a deed from the collec-

tor, the collector may convey the said real estate to

the devisees or heirs of the purchaser.

SEC. 57. If lands shall be sold by a collector for

Shall refuse to
make deed

State, county or city taxes, and the collector shall

die, remove or refuse to make a deed therefor, the

court, ratifying such sale, may appoint a special agent

to execute such deed upon application by said pur-

chaser, and may order said agent to execute said deed.

SEC. 58. In all cases where personal property is

Shall deliver
possession.

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