3064 ARTICLE 81

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. 1929, ch. 226, sec. 82.

86. In any case where a collector shall refuse to make a deed for the
conveyance of real estate sold and ratified, the Court ratifying such sale
may appoint a special agent to execute such deed, upon application of the
purchaser, and said agent shall act pursuant to said order.

The act of 1904, ch. 281, validates deed of successor in office of collector who made
the sale, and does not violate any of vested rights of owner of property. McMahon v.
Crean, 109 Md. 669.

The act of 1904, ch. 281, amending this section, apparently grew out of the decision
in Taylor v. Forest, 96 Md. 529.

1929, ch. 226, sec. 83.

87. The County Commissioners of the several counties and the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore City, the latter acting through its Comp-
troller, may bid at any sale of real estate for State and county taxes due
thereon, and may purchase any of such real estate offered at such sale;
and in case any of such real estate shall be purchased by them at said sale,
on the final ratification thereof the deed for the property so purchased shall
be made to said County Commissioners or the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore by the Collector and the property be held for the use of the
county or city, as the case may be.

This section authorizes purchase at sales for taxes of all the jurisdictions enumerated.
Young v. Cumberland, 170 Md. 510.

1929, ch. 226, sec. 84. 1937, ch. 248. 1939, ch. 389.

88. At any time after any county, or the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore shall have acquired property by conveyance from the Collector,
the County Commissioners or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore,
the latter acting through its Comptroller with the consent of the Board
of Finance Commissioners of Baltimore City, may in their discretion
either sell the said real estate at a private sale to the next preceding former
owner or other person having previously had an interest in the property
either by way of absolute conveyance or mortgage including former re-
versioners at and for the sales price equal to the amount paid by said
County Commissioners or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for said
property, together with all subsequent taxes or public liens charged against
said property and interest on said total sum at the rate of six per cent per
annum accounting from the date on which the purchase money was paid
by said County Commissioners or the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more to said collector, or in the alternative to such a private sale to the
former owner or other parties in interest as above defined, shall after giving
public notice by advertisement inserted once for three successive weeks in
some newspaper published in the county, and in Baltimore City for three
successive weeks in two newspapers published in said City, offer the said
real estate for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, pro-
vided no public sale shall be for a less sum than the amount of the taxes,
together with all costs, charges and interest clue and chargeable thereon;
and if for any real estate offered at public sale there shall be no bid which
seems adequate to the County Commissioners or the Comptroller of Balti-
more 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