4394 ARTICLE 20.

cil of Crisfield, and shall be transferred to the general money account of
the city and used for any city purpose.

1910, ch. 529, sec. 79 (p. 1090). 1916, ch. 458, sec. 79

75. Every deed given by the collector for land sold under this Act
for taxes shall contain a statement of the name of the owner of said land,
and when recorded shall be indexed under the name of the grantor, grantees
and the said owner or owners. The owner of any land so sold may redeem
the same at any time within one year of the date of ratification of said
sale, whether deed be given to the purchaser or not, by paying to said pur-
chaser or to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for use of said purchaser the
amount of the purchase money paid for said land, together with the costs-
and expenses incurred by him in the ratification of sale and of the deed
and record, if any, with fifteen per cent, interest per annum on purchase-
money from day of sale, whereupon the said purchaser shall reconvey said
land to said owner at the owner's expense and request, said land to be free'
of all liens or claims, except such as were against it before said tax sale.
In case said purchaser or purchasers shall refuse or neglect to execute such
deed, or for any other cause fail to do so, the Circuit Court for Somerset
County, on a petition filed in equity by said owner in the matter of the
collector's report of sale, under oath, setting out the facts of the sale of
the property and the payment of the money, penalties and charges, as
herein required, or the tender, request and refusal thereof, may pass an
order to be served on said purchaser, or if he cannot be found, to be pub-
lished as directed by the court, commanding said purchaser to be and
appear in said court on some certain day to be named therein and show
cause, if any he has, why he should not reconvey said property, and if
no cause is shown as required, or an insufficient one, the court shall pass
a decree ordering that said property be reconveyed to the said owner and
appointing a trustee to convey same to him in the same manner and as
fully as said purchaser could do. The cost of such petition and of the
proceedings thereunder, including a reasonable fee to his solicitor in case
it is granted, shall be paid by said purchaser, and it shall be so ordered
by the court. If said purchaser shall fail to pay costs and charges afore-
said, for the period of thirty days after decree, he may be adjudged guilty
of contempt of court, and shall be confined in the county jail until he
purges himself therefrom. In all cases of a sale of property for taxes the
Mayor and Council of Crisfield, or the collector for them may buy same

at a sum not to exceed the amount due for the taxes, penalties and costs
and expenses of sale, and subject to the aforesaid conditions.

1910, ch. 529, sec. 80 (p. 1091). 1922, ch. 132, sec. 80.

76. The said Clerk shall submit an itemized statement at the first
regular meeting in each month, or as often as he may be requested, to the
Council of all expenses incurred by the city and of all money received
and expended during the preceding month, and a like statement to the
Mayor at any time he may ask therefor. And at the end of each fiscal