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execution suited to the case, or the Court, upon such application,
may direct the property purchased to be re-sold, at the risk of the
purchaser, cub such time and on such terms as the Court may direct
and if the proceeds from the re-sale, after the payment of the ex-
penses thereof and of all costs of the proceeding, shall not be equal
to the amount of the purchase money originally bid therefor, the
Court may order and direct the difference to be paid by the said
purchaser, and enforce such order by execution.

210.    In the event that any former or preceding County Treas-
urer shall have failed, for any cause, to make a full report of or
take any other proceedings that might be required by law of any
tax-sales or sales made by him to the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's
County, in Equity, as provided for in this Article, then the present
Treasurer or any succeeding Treasurer is hereby authorized, em-
powered and directed to make such report of said tax-sale or sales
to the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County, in Equity, and take
such other proceedings as by law may be requisite which the Treas-
urer making said tax-sale or sales should have done and was by law
empowered and required so to do, and the said Court shall have such
power to ratify said tax-sale or sales in the same manner as if said
sale or sales had been reported by the Treasurer making the same,
and upon the final ratification by the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's
County, in Equity, of said tax-sale or sales the said present Treasurer
or any succeeding Treasurer is hereby authorized, empowered and
directed to execute and deliver unto the said purchaser or pur-
chasers as said tax-sale or sales made by such former or preceding
Treasurer a deed to said property to the purchaser thereof and such
deed shall be as good and valid in law as though it had been executed
by the Treasurer making said tax-sale or sales.

211.    The County Commissioners of Queen Anne's County are
hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to purchase
any property, for sale for the payment of taxes; provided they shall
not bid a sum greater approximately than the taxes in arrears upon
said property and the interest and expenses of sale and costs, and
to sell (at private or public sale) and convey or lease the same, as
in their judgment and discretion shall be deemed best for the interest
of the County.

212.    Any sale of real estate by the County Treasurer, when the
owners are described as the heirs of a named person, or when the
owners are described in the name of the life tenant, shall pass the
title as fully and in fee simple as if such heirs, or as if the re-
versioners or remaindermen, were each named in the proceedings
by his or their proper name; and if the purchaser of any real estate
sold by the County Treasurer for payment of the taxes shall die
without having secured a deed therefor, the County Treasurer or
his successor shall convey the said real estate to the heirs, devisees
or assignees of the purchaser, and the reversioner or remainderman
shall have the right upon his redeeming the property within one
year and a day from the day of sale to be substituted in the place
of the purchaser; and any purchaser may, upon making a re-sale,
apply to the Court ratifying the sale, to have the new purchaser
substituted in his place and stead.

213.    Immediately after the first day of April, in each year, the
County Treasurer shall, in person, or by the Sheriff of Queen Anne's