SAMUEL SPRIGG, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1820.

18. And be it enacted, That when the estate of an intestate
shall be sold on a credit, bonds shall be taken for the purchase
money from the purchaser or purchasers, by the commissioners,
with security, and made payable to each representative respec-
tively, according to his or her proportional part of the net amount
of sales, with interest thereon from the day of sale, and in such
instalments as the court shall direct.

CHAP. 191.

When sold on cre-
dit, bonds to be
taken with security,

&c.

19. And be it enacted, That in all cases where the commission-
ers appointed under this act, shall determine that the estate can
not be divided without loss and injury to all the parties, and the
court shall confirm their return, the person or persons electing
to take the estate at the valuation of the commissioners, at the
time of making the election, shall severally give bonds, with two
or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by the court in which
the proceedings may be had, to the other person or persons entit-
led to the said estate, for their several proportions of the sum of
money at which the said estate is valued, which bonds shall bear
interest from the date of the said election, and shall be made
payable in such instalments as the court shall direct.

The persons elec-
ting to take the
estate shall give
bonds, &c.

20. And be it enacted, That when any person entitled shall
elect to take the estate or any part thereof, at the valuation of the
commissioners, or when all or am of them refuse, and the same,
or any part thereof, shall be sold under the direction of the court,
and bonds taken for the payment of the purchase money, the
bonds so taken shall remain and be a lien on the lands for the
purchase of which they were given, until the said bonds shall he
wholly paid.

When electing
to take estate
shall give bonds,
&c.

21. And be it enacted. That the person making an election to
take any part of the estate at the valuation of the commissioners,
at the time of making the election shall give bond or bonds with
two or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by the court in
which the proceedings may be had, to the other person or per-
sons entitled to the said estate, for their several proportions of
the sum of money at which said part is valued, which bonds shall
bear interest from the date of the said election, and shall be made
payable in such instalments as the court shall direct, and such
bonds shall be and remain a lien on the lands for the purchase of
which they were given until the said bonds shall be wholly paid.

Such bonds and

the bonds of pur-
chasers, to be a
lien on the lands,

&c.

22. And be it enacted, That it shall not be necessary, if the
county or chancery court, as the case may be, shall deem it to be
for the interest of all persons concerned, for the purchaser or
purchasers of any part of the real estate of any person dying in-
testate, which may be sold by commissioners under this act, or
where any one or more of the representatives of such intestate
shall elect to take the same, or any part thereof, at the valuation
made by commissioners as is by this act allowed and directed, to
give bond to each of the representatives of such intestate, but
that such purchaser or purchasers, or person or persons who may
elect to take such real estate or any part thereof, shall give bond
to the state of Maryland, in such penalty and with such sureties,
as the court from which such commission may issue, shall direct
and approve, conditioned for the payment of the amount
of the valuation or purchase money, (as the case may be,)
to the legal representatives of such intestate, in such proportions

Bonds may be
given to the estate

instead of the re-

presentatives of
the deceased.