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ART. 12. ] HARFORD COUNTY.
paper published in the cities of Baltimore, Philadel-
phia, and New York, for the same length of time, to
sell by public sale to the highest bidder for cash all
such lots, and the same when sold to transfer by deed
of bargain and sale to the purchaser thereof; the
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said bailiff shall within two weeks after making sale
of the lots make return to the board of commission-
ers of the town of Havre-de-Grace of all his pro-
ceedings in relation thereto, and if from the sale of
any lot the bailiff shall receive more money than is
sufficient to satify the taxes and other legal charges
thereon, he shall within two weeks after such sale
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Bailiff to make
return of sale
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pay such surplus into the hands of the treasurer of
the board of commissioners of said town; and said
board of commissioners are hereby authorized to
invest the said funds in the bonds of the United
States or bonds of this state, subject to the pro-
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Funds to be
invested.
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visions of this act; the legal owner or his legal rep-
resentative may redeem any lot sold by paying taxes
and legal costs, with twelve per cent, per annum, to
the purchaser thereof, within two years from the day
of sale, the amount of purchase money, with interest
thereon at the rate of fifteen per cent, per annum,
from the day of sale.
In force from January 31, 1866.
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Owner may
redeem lot.
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1867, c. 37 enacts the following supplement to the above act:
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52. The power conferred on the commissioners of
the town of Havre de-Grace by the original act, to
which this is a supplement, is hereby continued, and
in case any of the lots of ground mentioned in said
act and thereby authorized to be sold, have not been
heretofore sold by the bailiff, under the direction of
the said commissioners, it shall be lawful for the said
commissioners, and they are hereby authorized, to
direct the sale thereof in the manner prescribed by
the said original act.
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1807, c 37, s. 1.
Power con-
tinued.
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53. The legal owner of any lot which has been or
may hereafter be sold under the provisions of said
original act, or of this supplement, or his legal repre-
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Ibid. 9 2.
Power of owner
to redeem lot
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