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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

especially the description thereof ; the name of the purchaser ;
the price brought; the sum of money received on account of
taxes, interest, penalties and costs of sale, and the items thereof ;
the balance of the purchase money remaining unpaid and pay-
able before delivery of deed ; and the original memorandum
of sale signed by the purchaser. At the end of said report of
sales, and writing in the book containing same, shall be one
general oath, in due form of law, by said treasurer, that each
of the aforegoing sales was fairly made.

116 B. Should the purchase money for any piece of land
sold at tax sale be more than the taxes, interest penalties and

Manner of
payment.

costs of sale due thereon, the purchaser thereof shall only pay
on the day of sale the amount of said taxes, interest, penalties
and costs of sale, and the residue shall be payable after the
period of redemption has expired, to the treasurer, for the time
being, upon the execution by him to the purchaser, or his
assignee, of a deed for said piece of land, but possession of the
property sold shall not be taken by the purchaser thereof until
the execution and recording of the deed therefor. Upon pay-
ment of the taxes, interest, penalties and costs of sale, which
shall be made on the day of sale, the treasurer shall deliver to
the purchaser a certificate of sale, setting forth all the facts
thereof, which certificate shall be assignable, and upon sur-
render of the same, its lawful holder shall receive from the
treasurer, in case such sale be set aside by the court, immediate
return of his purchase money, or in case such sale be ratified,
and the property not redeemed by its owner or some one in
privity with him, within two years from the first day of the
sale at which the same was sold, to wit, the first Monday of
March, by payment to the treasurer, for the time being, for the
use of the legal holder of said certificate of the amount of
money receipted for in said certificate, and any taxes subse-
quently assessed on said land and paid by said purchaser, with
interest thereon, at the rate of twelve per cent, per annum
from said first Monday in March, then the treasurer, for the
time being, upon the payment of the balance of the purchase
money in full, shall execute a deed in fee simple of such prop-
erty to the legal holder of said certificate, which deed shall be
held to be prima facie evidence of a good title, in fee simple
to the grantee therein to the property bought at any sale
herein authorized and therein conveyed. In case of redemp-
tion, it shall be the duty of the treasurer to immediately notify
the purchaser by letter, mailed to him at the address given
beneath his signature to the memorandum of sale, which