EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 399

the purchaser of such property on the day of sale, or the day
next succeeding, to pay on account of said purchase the amount
assessed or taxed on the property so sold, together with all
costs and charges, and no more, and the residue of the pur-
chase money shall remain on a credit of one year and a day.

If the property so sold shall not be redeemed at the expira-
tion of a year and a day from the day of sale, the Town Clerk
and Treasurer shall, when required, and on payment of the
full amount of the purchase money, execute a deed for the
same to the purchaser. If it shall appear that the owner of
the said property prior to the execution of the deed for the
same by the Town Clerk and Treasurer, cannot, after reason-
able effort, be found, or if said owner shall refuse to receive
said balance of money, then in either case the Town Clerk and
Treasurer shall invest the same for the benefit of such owner,
and shall safely keep the same, and from time to time collect
the interest thereon, and invest for the benefit of such owner
the interest from time to time.

Whenever property has been sold by one Town Clerk and
Treasurer for taxes pursuant to law, and such sale has been
reported and the deed executed by the successor in office of the
Town Clerk and Treasurer who made the sale as aforesaid,
such report and such conveyance shall be as valid to all in-
tents and purposes as they would have been if made by the
Town Clerk and Treasurer who made the sale. Whenever
property has been sold for taxes, pursuant to law, by one
Town Clerk and Treasurer, and such sale has been reported
by the Town Clerk and Treasurer, who made the same, but
the deed for such property has been executed and delivered
by the successor in office of the Town Clerk and Treasurer
who made such sale and report as aforesaid such conveyance
shall be as valid to all intents and purposes as it would have
been if made by the Town Clerk and Treasurer who made and
reported the sale.

Whenever there shall be a default in the payment of taxes
on personal property and the Town Clerk and Treasurer shall
have distrained or levied upon the same for non-payment of
any taxes due by the owner thereof, before making sale of the
property so distrained or levied upon, said Town Clerk and
Treasurer shall give notice by advertisement published once a
week for two successive weeks prior to the date of sale, in a
weekly newspaper published in said town, or if there be no
newspaper published in said town, then in some newspaper
published elsewhere in Prince George's County that he will