5062 ARTICLE 23.

collusion in said proceedings and sale on the part of or between the Treas-
urer and the purchaser.

1916, ch. 109.

213. At any tax sale the County Commissioners may bid on and pur-
chase any property real or personal, to an amount sufficient to cover the
amount of taxes and interest due and the cost and ratification thereof; and
the Treasurer be and is authorized to convey any real estate to said County

Commissioners as provided for other purchasers, and the said County
Commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to sell and dispose
of any personal or real estate and convey the same as any other purchaser
may do. And the fund derived from such sale or sales shall be paid to the
Treasurer of Wicomico County and used for any general expense or ex-
penses of said County.

1904, ch. 14, sec. 17.

214. Every tax deed shall contain the name of the former owner of the
property it conveys, and the Clerk of the Circuit Court in whose office
the same may be recorded shall index in* not only in the name of the
grantor and grantee, but also in the name of and as from the former owner
to the grantee.

1904, ch. 14, sec. 18.

215. The Treasurer shall receive, in addition to his regular compensa-
tion from Wicomico County, the following fees, which shall be payable
only out of the proceeds of any sale made to enforce the payment of
taxes, and which shall be included in the costs and expense of said sale
for advertising real property for sale under the provisions of this Act.
If the property be sold, the Treasurer shall receive a fee of three dollars
to cover expense of advertising, as provided in this Act; a fee of fifty

cents for auctioneers' costs and a fee of one dollar for personal services
making a total of four dollars and fifty cents, but if the payment be made
after advertisement and before the sale, the fee of four dollars shall be

charged by said Treasurer and said Treasurer shall receive a fee of fifty
cents for making a statement of any taxes due on personal property when
said taxes are to be collected by the Sheriff under the provisions of Sec-
tion 212 of this subtitle, and the Sheriff shall include said fee in the costs

of said collection.

1904, ch. 14, sec. 19.

216. The Treasurer shall deposit in the manner hereinbefore provided
all county taxes and all moneys due said county and collected by him, and
when said county taxes for any year shall have been collected in full, he
shall deliver to the County Commissioners a statement of deposits showing
such collection in full; and he shall also pay into the Treasury of the
State of Maryland, according to law, all the State taxes levied in said

*"It" evidently intended.