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the judge thereof during the 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.

1888, art. 87, sec. 25. 1860, art. 88, sec. 28. 1813, ch. 102, sec. 4.

26. If any sheriff shall make sale of any lands or tene-
ments and shall die without executing a deed of conveyance to
the purchaser, the court out of which the execution issued
under which the lands were sold may, on the application of
the purchaser or his 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 executions.

Venditioni Exponas.

Ibid. sec. 26. 1860, art. 88, sec. 30. 1829, ch. 158, sec. 1.

27. If any sheriff shall have taken property in execution
and shall fail to make sale thereof for five years, or shall be in
insolvent circumstances, the person for whose use such execu-
tion 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.

Ibid. sec. 27.1860, art. 88, sec. 31. 1795, ch. 82, sec. 1. 1882, ch. 403.

28. The sheriff shall execute the sentence of death pro-
nounced against any criminal by the judgment of any court of
this State whenever he is authorized to do so by the warrant
of the governor, 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 exclude 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 consanguin-
ity) 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 execution, then said sheriff
shall procure some other physician of good standing to attend
and furnish him a certificate that the execution was properly