ART. 11. ] LEVY AND COLLECTION OF TAXES.

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54. Any sale of lands by a collector, where the owners are de-
scribed 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.

Id s 54
Description of
owners in sale.

55. 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 pur-
chase-money, with interest thereon at the rate of fifteen per cent,
per annum from the date of the sale.

Id s 55
Bight of owner
to redeem real
estate
42 Md 196
36 Md 207

56. If the purchaser of such real estate shall die without having
procured a deed from the collector, the collector may convey the
said real estate to the devisees or heirs of the purchaser.
57. 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.
58. In all cases where personal property is sold by a collector,
he shall deliver possession thereof to the purchaser; but if the prop-
erty is not present, or if for any other cause the collector cannot
deliver possession thereof, the purchaser may recover possession by
action of replevin, together with damages for the detention thereof
from the time of sale, or may recover the value thereof and damages
in an action of trover.

Id s 56
Conveyance to
devisee or heir
of purchaser

Id s 57
Collector failing
to make deed.

Id s 58
Collector to
deliver posses-
sion of personal
property sold

59. Whenever personal property that has been assessed as the
property of any individual in any county, city, or election district,
shall be removed before the tax levied thereon has been collected,
the collector in whose hands the levy is, may pursue said property
and collect said tax in the same manner as if the property remained
in his said county, city, or district

Id s 59
May follow prop-
erty removed.

60. 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 pro-
posing to bid at any such sale of property by a collector as afore-
said, the said collector may summon for his defence the posse comi-

Id s 60
Posse comitatus
may be sum-
moned when re-
sisting or men-
acing of collec-
tor, or person
bidding at sale

tatus, 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.

Penalty for re-
fusing to obey
summons

6 2. If any person shall strike or assault a collector in the dis-
charge of his duty, or shall strike or assault any person serving as
one of the posse comitatus, or shall strike or assault any person to
deter or prevent his bidding at a collector's sale, or for having bid
at such sale, he shall, on indictment and conviction thereof, be sub-
ject to a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hun-

Id s G1
Penalty for
assaulting col-
lector, etc