THOMAS H. HICKS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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said real estate, by payment to the purchaser
thereof within the period of two years from the
date of such sale, the amount of the purchase
money for which the same may have been sold,
with interest thereon at the rate of ten per centum
per annum from the date of the day of sale.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the costs to the

collector in making a distress for taxes as herein
authorised and directed shall be as follows: for
summoning and swearing two appraisers and mak-
ing out a schedule, one dollar, and the appraisers
shall be entitled to fifty cents each for their ser-
vices, if the property be sold, said collector shall
receive five per centum on the gross amount of
sales and such expenses as may be incurred in
advertising and printing.

Compensation.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That it shall be
the duty of the several collectors to ascertain from
all the tax payers from whom they may collect
the taxes, and take a memorandum of all accu-
mulation of assessable property of every kind ac-
cording the existing tax laws, and make return
of the same to the County Commissioners, and the
said Commissioners shall allow said collectors a
fair compensation for all their services in making
said return.

Duty of Col-
lectors.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That all act or parts
of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act,
be and the same are hereby repealed.

Repealed.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from and after the date of its passage.

CHAPTER 390.

In force.

AN ACT to make valid a deed from Benjamin
Chandler, and wife, to Richard L. Thomas.

Passed March

9, 1858.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this General As-
sembly of Maryland, That one Benjamin Chand-
ler, and Rebecca, his wife, did on the twenty-
seventh day of August, in the year eighteen hun-
dred and fifty-three, execute and deliver to a

Preamble.