2594 ARTICLE 81.

An. Code, sec. 56. 1904, sec. 54. 1888, sec. 53. 1790, ch. 59. 1841, ch. 23, sec. 47.
1874, ch. 483, sec. 52. 1900, ch. 619.

62. Every collector making sale of property for the payment of taxes
shall be entitled to the same fees as a sheriff for selling property under
execution. This section shall not apply to Talbot county.

An. Code, sec. 57. 1904, sec. 55. 1888, sec. 54. 1786, ch. 12, sec. 3. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 53.

63. On any property being distrained or advertised for sale for public
dues or taxes, if the person whose property has been so executed shall
apply to the county commissioners, or mayor of the city of Baltimore, or
the president of either branch of the city council, alleging, under oath,
that the whole sum, or any part thereof, for which such distress has been
made is not due for public dues or taxes, the said commissioners, mayor or
president may, in writing, order that the sale of the property distrained
shall be suspended for any time, not exceeding ten days, and appoint a
day and place for the person distraining said property to exhibit his claim
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.

An. Code, sec. 58. 1904, sec. 56. 1888, sec. 55. 1842, ch. 133, sec. 2. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 54.

64. Any sale of lands by a collector, where 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 other proper name.

An. Code, sec. 59. 1904, sec. 57. 1888, sec. 56. 1844, ch. 236, sec. 6. 1862, ch. 133.
1870, ch. 342. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 55.

65. Whenever real estate shall be sold by a collector the owner thereof

prior to the sale may 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.

This section contrasted with the local law applicable to Prince George's County.

Young v. Ward, 88 Md. 421.

This section referred to in construing sec. 93—see notes thereto. Baden v. Perkins,
77 Md. 467.
Cited but not construed in Burroughs v. Gaither, 66 Md. 184.

An. Code, sec. 60. 1904, sec. 58. 1888, sec. 57. 1845, ch. 365. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 56.

66. If the purchaser of such real estate shall die without having pro-
cured a deed from the collector, the collector may convey the said real
estate to the devisees or heirs of the purchaser.

An Code, sec 61. 1904, sec. 59. 1888, sec. 58. 1815, ch. 171, sec. 1. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 57.

1904, ch. 281, secs. 1, 2.

67. If lands shall be sold by a collector for state, county or city taxes,
and the collector shall die, remove or refuse to make a deed therefor, the