726                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                  [CH. 280

ment of the sums so expended and the date of such expendi-
tures, verified by affidavit, and it shall be the duty of said clerk
when and as the money is paid into court for the redemption
of property as hereinbefore provided, to notify, by mail or
otherwise, the purchaser of said property of such payment for
the purpose of redemption.

496B. After the expiration of one year and one day from
the date of such sale (provided the same shall have been rati-
fied by the court) the treasurer shall by a good and sufficient
deed to be executed and acknowledged according to law, and
at the cost of the purchaser, convey to the purchaser or pur-
chasers the parcel of land so sold, and the title to the same shall
thereupon be good and marketable in said purchaser or pur-
chasers. And if the treasurer making such sale shall die, re-
move from the county or cease to be treasurer by reason of the
expiration of his term of office, or for any cause, the treas-
urer of said county then in office shall execute such deed as
full and effectually as the collector or treasurer making such
: sale might or could have done, or in the event that there be no
treasurer the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County shall
appoint some person to convey the same. Any sale of lands
by the treasurer when the owners are described as heirs, shall
pass the title as fully as if such heirs were named in the pro-
ceeding by his other proper name; and if the purchaser of
, any real estate sold by the treasurer for the payment of taxes
shall die without having procured a deed therefor, the treasurer
may convey said real estate to the devisees or heirs of the
purchaser.

498. The treasurer shall pay over according to law, to the
order of said County Commissioners, in the manner hereinbe-
fore prescribed by the several sections of this sub-title of this
Article, all county taxes and all accounts and moneys due said
(County and collected by him; and he shall also pay over to- the
treasurer of the State, according to law, all the State taxes
levied and collected in said county by him; and he shall be
allowed eighteen months from the first day of January of
each year, when the said taxes are due and payable, to com-
plete all and every one of the collections thereof and to make
his final settlement with the said County Commissioners and
the State treasurer respectively. ~No claims for erroneous, in-
solvent or uncollectible tax bills for which he shall claim a
credit shall be allowed him unless presented before the said