1090 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

objections or exceptions, and no case shall be reopened after
final ratification, except for fraud or collusion on the part of
the collector and purchaser. All moneys received from the sale
of any property under this Act shall be paid by the collector to
the Mayor or Council of Crisfield, who, after deducting the
amount of taxes, penalties and costs of sale, shall on demand
pay the balance of the purchase money to the owner of the
property sold. If such owner does not demand and will not
receipt for said balance or for any reason can not legally
receipt therefor, then the same shall be deposited in a bank of
Crisfield designated by the Council, paying interest on deposits,
to the credit of the Mayor and Council of Crisfield, for the use
of delinquent taxpayers, and shall be only paid out by checks
signed by the Treasurer and countersigned by the President of
the Council. The clerk shall own an account against the Mayor
and Council of Crisfield for the use of delinquent taxpayers, in
which they shall be charged as debtors with excess from each
sale, showing the amount due each delinquent owner, also cred-
iting them whenever such owner is paid, said owner to receive
said excess, with due proportion of interest earned; said money
so deposited not to be used for any other purpose than payment
of those entitled thereto. Once in every ten years the Mayor
and Council shall publish in a newspaper in Somerset County
a statement of all sums remaining in this fund, and the names
of the person or persons entitled thereto, the expense of said
publication to be paid out of said fund. If at the expiration of
six years from the date of its deposit any part of said fund shall
be unclaimed, then that which is not claimed shall become the
property of said Mayor and Council of Crisfield, and shall be
transferred to the general money account of the city and used
for any city purpose.

79. Every deed given by the collector for land sold under this
Act for taxes shall contain a statement of the name of the
owner of said land, and when recorded shall be indexed under
the name of the grantor, grantees and the said owner or owners.
The owner of any land so sold may redeem the same at any
time within one year of the date of ratification of said sale,
whether deed be given to the purchaser or not, by paying to
said purchaser or to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for use of
said purchaser the amount of the purchase money paid for said
land, together with the costs and expenses incurred by him in
the ratification of sale and of the deed and record, if any, with
fifteen per cent, interest per annum on purchase money from
day of sale, whereupon the said purchaser shall reconvey said
land to said owner at the owner's expense and request, said
land to be free of all liens or claims, except such as were against
it before said tax sale. In case said purchaser or purchasers