174                              Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 149

to all intents and purposes as it would have been if made by the
County Treasurer who made the sale, and in any case where a County
Treasurer or his successor shall refuse to execute a deed for the
conveyance of real estate sold and ratified, the Court ratifying such
sale may appoint a special agent to execute such deed, upon ap-
plication of the purchaser, and said agent shall act pursuant to said
order; and the Court to whom the report is made shall have full
power and authority in the same proceeding, on application by the
County Treasurer or his successor, to compel the purchaser to comply
with all or any of the terms of sale by process of attachment or other
execution suited to the case, or the Court, upon such application, may
direct the property purchased to be resold, at the risk of the pur-
chaser, at such time and on such terms as the Court may direct and
if the proceeds from the resale, after the payment of the expenses
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.]

[156-I. In the event that any former or preceding County Treas-
urer shall have failed, for any cause, to make a full report of or to
take any other proceedings that might be required by law of any
tax-sale or sales made by him to the Circuit Court for Kent County,
in Equity, as provided for in this sub-title, then the present Treasurer
or any succeeding Treasurer is hereby authorized, empowered and
directed to make such report of said tax-sale or sales to the Circuit
Court for Kent County, in Equity, and take such other proceedings
therein as by law may be requisite which the Treasurer 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 Kent County, in Equity, of said
tax sale or sales, the said present Treasurer or any succeeding Treas-
urer is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to execute and
deliver unto the said purchaser or purchasers, at 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.]

[156J. The County Commissioners of Kent 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.]

[156K. 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 rever-
sioners 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