1832 REVENUE AND TAXES. [ART. 81

1904: art. 81. sec. 77. 188S. art. 81, sec. 74. 1860, art. 81, sec. 83. 1812. ch. 191.
sec. 36. 1831, ch. 68, sec. 3. 1862, ch. 236. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 73.

79. The attorney prosecuting such action shall be allowed the usual
commissions for such services; but no payment of any money due the
State, either in suit or on judgment, shall be valid and effectual unless
made to the State's attorney or to the treasurer, or such person as shall
have been specially appointed and authorized by him to receive the
same, or unless made to such sheriff, coroner or elisor as may be author-
ized to receive the same by virtue of any execution issued to enforce
the payment thereof. No attorney, other than the state's attorney
prosecuting such action, as provided for in this section, shall receive
any part of the money thus sued for, except the fees allowed by law,
under a penalty of a fine of not less than five hundred dollars, nor more
than, five thousand dollars, to be recovered as other fines and forfeitures
are recovered.

Under the act of 1831, ch. 68, it was held that the attorney of the state
had no authority to assign a Judgment under the act of 1763, since payment
to such attorney was no satisfaction of the judgment. Peacock v Pembroke,
8 Md. 351.

Ibid. sec. 78. 188S, art. 81. sec. 75. 1860, art. 81, sec. 84. 1841, ch. 23,
sec. 55. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 74.

80. The comptroller shall make all just allowances to collectors for
insolvencies or removals, upon certificates of the county commissioners
or appeal tax court that such allowances are just.

Execution Against Debtors to the State.

Ibid. sec. 79. 1888, art. 81, sec. 76. 1860, art. 81, sec. 85. 1845, ch. 196,
sec. 2. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 75.

81. Whenever the State shall have a judgment or decree against a
debtor or his securities, and money may be ordered to be levied by the
county commissioners of any county, or the mayor and city council of
Baltimore, for the benefit of such debtor, or any one of his sureties, the
state's attorney for the county may order an attachment to be issued by
the clerk of the court where such judgment or decree was passed against
the goods, chattels, rights and credits, lands and tenements of such
debtor and his sureties, which may be laid in the hands of the county
commissioners, or their clerk, or any collector of said county, or any
or all of them, in the discretion of the state's attorney; and the pro-
ceedings on such attachments shall in all respects be the same as in
other attachments on judgments or decrees.

Ibid. sec. 80. 1888, art. 81, sec. 77. 1860, art. 81, sec. 86. 1845, ch. 196,
sec. 1. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 76.

82. 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 city of Baltimore may bid for and
purchase the same at the sale thereof, for the use of the State, if, in his