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court ratifying such sale may appoint a special agent to execute 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 col-
lector 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 deed of successor in office of collector who made
the sale, and does not violate any of vested rights of owner of 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.

An. Code, sec. 62. 1904, sec. 60. 1888, sec. 59. 1844, ch. 236, sec. 7. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 58.

68. 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.

An. Code, sec. 63. 1904, sec. 61. 1888, sec. 60. 1843, ch. 329. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 59.

69. 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.

An. Code, sec. 64. 1904, sec. 62. 1888, sec. 61. 1844, ch. 236, sec. 9. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 60.

70. If any person shall resist, strike 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.