1054 ARTICLE 81.

estate for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, provided no-
public sale shall be for a less sum than the amount of the taxes, together
with all coats, charges and interest due and chargeable thereon; and if for
any real estate offered at public sale there shall be no bid which seems ade-
quate to the County Commissioners or the Comptroller of Baltimore City,
the same shall be withdrawn from sale and thereafter, at any time without
any further notice, the County Commissioners, or the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore acting through its Comptroller with the consent of
the Board of Finance Commissioners, may in their discretion sell the same
at public or private sale for the highest amount they can obtain therefor.
In the event of a sale, either public or private, a deed of conveyance shall
be executed by the County Commissioners, or in Baltimore City by the
Board of Finance Commissioners, to the purchaser upon receiving the
full amount of the purchase price; thereupon the County Commissioners
or the Comptroller of the City of Baltimore shall pay over to the Collector
the amount of taxes, together with all interest and charges due and charge-
able on said property, and any balance that may be left after paying the
costs and expenses incurred in the purchase and sale of said property, shall
pass into the general treasury of the County or City for the general uses
thereof.

1929, ch. 226, sec. 85.

85. 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 proper name.

1929, ch. 226, sec. 86.

86. 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, or in case of a sale subject
to a ground rent to his executor.

Resistance to Collectors.

1929, ch. 226, sec. 87.

87. If any person shall resist, strike or menace with violence any
collector 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
tax 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.