1050 ARTICLE 81.

may be just, not exceeding the sum of five dollars, and in Baltimore City,
whenever it shall be necessary to properly describe property, the City Col-
lector shall procure a description from the land records and no survey shall
be made unless a proper description cannot be obtained from the Land
Records, and when a survey is necessary the City Collector shall direct the
City Surveyor to make a proper survey, furnish a description and plat to
the Collector for a charge not exceeding three dollars, the same to be taxed
as part of the costs. The power under this section to sell real estate of a
delinquent taxpayer for non-payment of taxes, State, county or city, shall
exist notwithstanding the existence of personal property of the delinquent.
The requirement of newspaper advertising in this section shall be the mini-
mum requirement, and wherever local laws in the counties require addi-
tional and/or different newspaper advertising, such provisions shall also
be complied with.

1929, ch. 226, sec. 73.

73. When any parcel or parcels of ground, improved or unimproved,
shall be chargeable with payment of taxes and such parcel or parcels of
ground be subject to a ground rent or lease for a term of years, renewable
forever, it shall be the duty of the Collector, if his books disclose the fact of
such ground rent or lease or if he be actually notified thereof prior to the
sale, to sell the leasehold interest only with the improvements erected
thereon, if any; provided that in case the leasehold interest and improve-
ments shall not sell for the amount necessary to pay the taxes due on said
parcel or parcels of ground, together with all costs, charges and interest,
then the Collector shall sell the whole fee simple of such parcel or parcels
of ground.

1929, ch. 226, sec. 74.

74. The Collector shall require the purchaser of any real estate sold
to pay on the day of sale, or the day following, the full amount of the
purchase price which shall be retained by the Collector until the final
ratification of the sale; and within thirty days from the day of sale the
Collector shall report the same with the amount thereof and all proceed-
ing's relating thereto, including a statement of taxes, charges and all costs
incident to the sale, to the Circuit Court of the county sitting in equity,
the Circuit Court or the Circuit Court No. 2 of Baltimore City, as the
case may be. The Court shall examine the proceedings and if the same
appear to be regular and the provisions of law relating thereto have been
complied with, shall enter an order nisi, similar to and published in the
same manner as in case of judicial sales by trustees, warning all persons
interested in the property sold to appear on or before the day designated
in such order to show cause why the same should not be finally ratified
and confirmed on a day to be designated in said order which shall not be
less than thirty nor more than sixty days from the date of the order. The
purchaser at any such sale shall be deemed to be a party in interest in the
same manner as a purchaser at an ordinary judicial sale. Such order nisi