HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1343
penalties thereon accruing subsequent to the date of sale. Upon
receipt of said balance and the said subsequent taxes and
interest and penalties thereon, the Collector shall execute and
deliver a proper deed to the purchaser and shall hold any bal-
ance over and above the amount required for the payment of
taxes, interest, penalties, and costs of sale, for the use of the
person entitled thereto.
83. CERTIFICATE OF SALE. The Collector shall deliver to
the purchaser a certificate of sale under his hand and seal,
acknowledged by him as a conveyance of land, which certifi-
cate shall set forth that the property therein described was
sold by him to the purchaser, the date of the sale, the amount
for which the property was sold, the total amount of taxes
due thereon at the time of sale, together with interest and pen-
alties thereon and expenses incurred in making the sale, a
description of the property in substantially the same form as
the description appearing on the Collector's tax roll, a state-
ment that the rote of redemption is. six per cent per annum,
the time when an action to foreclose the right of redemption
may be instituted, and that the certificate will be void unless
foreclosure proceedings are brought within two years from the
date of the certificate. If the property is unimproved or has
no street number, and the Collector has procured a description
of the same from the County or City Surveyor, the County or
City Surveyor's description shall be included in the certificate
of sale. No other statements need be included in the certifi-
cate.
The certificate of sale shall be in substantially the following
form:
"I,................................ v, Collector of Taxes
for the State of Maryland and the........................ of
......................... ? hereby certify that on...........
19...., I sold to............................ ? at public auc-
tion for the sum of.............. Dollars and...............
Cents, of which................... Dollars has been paid the
property in................ described as..................
and assessed to.............................. The property
described herein is subject to redemption. Upon redemption
the holder of this certificate will be refunded the sums paid
on account of the purchase price together with interest thereon
at the rate of six per cent per annum from the date of pay-
ment to the date of redemption, together with all other
amounts specified by Chapter............ of the Acts of 1943,
and acts amendatory thereof. The balance due on account of
the purchase price and all taxes, together with interest and
penalties thereon, accruing subsequent to the date of sale,
must be paid to the Collector before a deed can be delivered
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