ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 665

veyance from the Collector, the County Commissioners or
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the latter acting
through its Comptroller with the consent of the Board of
Finance Commissioners of Baltimore City, shall after giv-
ing public notice by advertisement inserted once for three
successive weeks in some newspaper published in the County,,
and in Baltimore City once for three successive weeks in
two newspapers published in said City, offer the said real
estate for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for
cash, provided no public sale shall be for a less sum than
the amount of the taxes, together with all costs, charges and
interest due and chargeable thereon; and if for any real estate
offered at public sale there shall be no bid which seems ade-
quate to the County Commissioners or the Comptroller of
Baltimore City, the same shall be withdrawn from sale and
thereafter, at any time without any further notice, the County
Commissioners, or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
acting through its Comptroller with the consent of the Board
of Finance Commissioners, may in their discretion sell the
same at public or private sale for the highest amount they can
obtain therefor. In the event of a sale, either public or pri-
vate, a deed of conveyance shall be executed by the County
Commissioners, or in Baltimore City by the Board of Finance
Commissioners, to the purchaser upon receiving the full
amount of the purchase price; thereupon the County Com-
missioners or the Comptroller of the City of Baltimore shall
pay over to the Collector the amount of taxes, together with
all interest and charges due and chargeable on said property,
and any balance that may be left after paying the costs and
expenses incurred in the purchase and sale of said property,
shall pass into the general treasury of the County or City
for the general uses thereof.

85. Any sale of lands by a collector, where the owners
are described as the heirs of a named person, shall pass the
title as fully as if such heirs were each named in the pro-
ceedings by his proper name.

86. If the purchaser of such real estate shall die without
having procured a deed from the Collector, the Collector may
convey the said real estate to the devisees or heirs of the pur-
chaser, or in case of a sale subject to a ground rent to his
executor.