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such deed, upon application by said purchaser, and may order said agent
to execute said deed. Whenever property in the city of Baltimore has
been sold for taxes, pursuant to law by one city collector, and such sale
has been reported and the deed executed by the successor in office of
the city collector who made 'the sale as aforesaid, such report and such
conveyance shall be as valid to all intents and purposes as they would
have been if made by the city collector who made the sale. Whenever
property in the city of Baltimore has been sold for taxes, pursuant to
law, by one city collector, and such sale has been reported by the city
collector who made the same, but the deed for such property has been
executed and delivered by the successor in office of the city collector
who made such sale and report as aforesaid, such conveyance shall be
as valid to all intents and purposes as it would have been if made by
the city collector who made and reported the sale.

The act of 1904, ch. 281, validates the deed of the successor in office of
the collector who made the sale, and does not violate any of the vested
rights of the owner of the property. McMahon v. Crean, 109 Md. 669.

The act of 1904, ch. 281, amending this section, apparently grew out of
the decision in Taylor v. Forest, 96 Md. 529.

1904, art. 81, sec. 60. 1888, art. 81, sec. 59. 1860, art. 81, sec. 66. 1844, ch. 236,
sec. 7. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 58.

62. 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 possession 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.

Ibid. sec. 61. 1888, art. 81, sec. 60. 1860, art. 81, sec. 67. 1843, ch. 329.
1874. ch. 483, sec. 59.

63. Whenever personal property that has been assessed as the prop-
erty of any individual, in any county, city or election 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 said county, city
or district.

Ibid. sec. 62. 1888. art. 81. sec. 61. 1860, art. 81, sec. 68. 1844, ch. 236,
sec. 9. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 60.

64. If any person shall resist, striks or menace with violence any col-
lector in the discharge of his duties, or shall resist, attack or menace
with violence any person present, and bidding or proposing to bid at
any such sale of property by a collector as aforesaid, the said collector
may summon for his defense 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.