1831.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 100

of such payment in all courts of law and equity in this
state. And if said commissioners or any of them, or said
collector shall on such payment being tendered, refuse to
receive the same, or if said collector or any of the com-
missioners aforesaid, shall after receiving payment afore-

Case of failure to
receive such pay-
ment,

said, refuse or fail on demand, to grant and acknowledge
such certificate as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for
any person, a credible witness to such payment, or tender of
payment to make affidavit before any justice of the peace
of said county of such refusal or failure, and of such pay-
ment or tender of payment having been made, specifying
the name of the claimant or owner aforesaid/ by or in whose
behalf it shall have been made and designating as afoi esaid
the property aforesaid; and such affidavit when recorded as

Or give certificate
&c.

aforesaid, and copies thereof certified under seal of court
as aforesaid, shall have effect as a certificate aforesaid, du-
ly executed, acknowledged and recorded as aforesaid, and
as proof of such payment; and if said collector or any of
the commissioners aforesaid shall grant a certificate as
aforesaid, and shall not acknowledge the same as aforesaid,
an affidavit as aforesaid, before a justice of the peace of a
credible witness to the execution thereof subjoined to or
endorsed on said certificate, shall have the same effect as

Clerk's fees.

such acknowledgement; and for the recording aforesaid,
the clerk of the county court shall be paid at the rate of his
charges for recording conveyances of land.

Conveyance pre-
scribed.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That if the land or real estate
so sold, shall not be redeemed within the time and upon the
conditions specified in the foregoing section the collector or
his successor shall in the manner and form now prescribed
by law, execute a conveyance to the purchaser or purcha-
sers, their heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns of all
such right, title, interest and estate, to and in the land or
real estate sold as aforesaid, as by virtue of said sale, the
said purchaser or purchasers shall be or shall have been en-
titled to claim.

CHAPTER 100.

Passed Feb. 23, 1832

An act relating to certain Fees in Anne Arundel county
court.

Court empowered
to allow fees.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act, that in all criminal
cases which are now, or may be hereafter removed from