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trict, 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

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 81, sec. 68. 1844, ch. 236, sec. 9. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 60.

61. 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
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.

Ibid, sec 70. 1844, ch. 236, sec. 16. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 62.

62. If any collector shall have good reason to believe that he
will be resisted by violence in the discharge of his duty in making
a sale, he may, prior to the day of sale, summon the posse comi-
tatus for his protection and the protection of peaceable persons,
attending such sale; and the said posse comitatus, when so sum-
moned and attending, shall be paid as hereinbefore directed,
and shall be liable to be proceeded against as hereinbefore pro-
vided, for failing or refusing to attend.

Ibid. sec. 69. 1844, ch. 236, sec. 10. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 61.

63. 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 per-
son 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 subject to a fine of not less than one hundred nor
more than five hundred dollars, and to imprisonment for not less,
than two nor more than twelve months.