1102 ARTICLE 81.

public dues or taxes, the said commissioners, mayor or president may, in
writing, order that the sale of the property distrained shall be suspended
for any time, not exceeding ten days, and appoint a day and place for the
person distraining said property to exhibit his claim before the county
commissioners or mayor and city council; and the said county commis-
sioners or mayor and city council shall adjudge the sum due for which
distress may rightfully be made, beyond which no sale shall be made

of the goods, in such case, and may, if the distress shall appear to them
excessive, order such part of the goods as they may think proper and just
to be immediately released, and may order either party to pay the costs.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 64. 1912, sec. 58. 1904, sec. 56. 1888, sec. 55. 1842, ch. 133,
sec. 2. 1874, ch, 483, sec. 54.

195. 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 other proper name.

An. Code. 1924, sec. 65. 1912. sec. 59. 1904, sec. 57. 1888, sec. 56. 1844, ch. 236,
sec. 6. 1862. ch. 133. 1870, ch. 342. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 55.

196. Whenever real estate shall be sold by a collector the owner thereof
prior to the sale may redeem the same by paying into court, to be paid to

the purchaser thereof within the period of twelve calendar months from
the date of such sale, the amount of the purchase money, with interest
thereon at the rate of fifteen per cent, per annum from the date of the sale.

65. Sec. 65 (old) referred to in construing sec. 61 (old), —see notes to sec.
192. Wagner v. Goodrich, 148 Md. 321.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 66. 1912, sec. 60. 1904, sec. 58. 1888, sec. 57. 1845, ch. 365.

1874, ch. 483, sec. 56.

197. 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.

66. See notes to secs. 69, 191 and 142, and to art. 93, sec. 120.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 67. 1912, sec. 61. 1904, sec. 59. 1888, sec. 58. 1815, ch. 171.
sec. 1. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 57. 1904. ch. 281, secs. 1, 2.

198. If lands shall be sold by a collector for state, county or city taxes,
and the collector shall die, remove or refuse to make a deed therefor, the
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 collector 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 Balti-
more has been sold for taxes, pursuant to law, by one city collector, and

See important footnote on first page of this article.