ART. 87.] SHERIFFS—VENDITIONI EXPONAS. 1289

recess, shall order the schedule and return of any such sheriff to
be amended so as to describe with sufficient certainty the property
purporting to be taken in virtue of such writ.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 88, sec. 28. 1813, ch 102, sec. 4.

25. If any sheriff shall make sale of any lands or tenements,
and shall die without executing a deed of conveyance to the pur-
chaser, the court out of which the execution issued, under which
the knds were sold, may, on the application of the purchaser, or
Ms legal representative, order and direct the sheriff for the time
being, Or some one of the coroners, (as the case may be,) of the county
or Baltimore city in which the lands or tenements lie, to execute a
deed of conveyance to the purchaser, or his legal representative.
This section shall apply to all officers making sales under execu-
tions.

Venditioni Exponas.
P. G L., (1860,) art 88, sec. 30. 1829, ch. 158, sec. 1.

26. If any sheriff shall have taken property in execution and
shall fail to make sale thereof for five years, or shall be in insol-
vent circumstances, the person for whose use such execution was
issued, may, in either case, have a writ of venditioni exponas
issued to the sheriff for the time being.

Busey v. Tuck, 47 Md. 174. Deakins v. Rex, 60 Md. 598.

Execution of Death Penalty.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 88, sec. 31. 1795, ch. 82, sec 1. 1882, ch. 403.

27. The sheriff shall execute the sentence of death pronounced
against any criminal by the judgment of any court of this State,

whenever he is authorized to do so by the warrant of the gov-
ernor, and it shall be the duty of the sheriff to execute every such
sentence of death in as private a manner as possible, and to ex-
clude from the view thereof all persons except his deputies, the
spiritual advisers of the criminal, the legal counsel who defended
him, his or her relatives (not more remote than the second degree

of either affinity or consanguinity), and such other persons, not

exceeding twenty, as he may appoint to witness the same; and the
said sheriff shall notify the physician of the jail, if there be any,
or if there be no such physician or he refuse to attend the execu-