5094 ARTICLE 23.

ment of those entitled thereto. Once in every two years the Mayor and
Council shall publish in a newspaper printed in Wicomico county a state-
ment of all sums remaining in this fund, and the names of the person
or persons entitled thereto, the expense of said publication to be paid out
of said fund. If at the expiration of six years from the date any part
of said fund shall be unclaimed, then that not claimed shall become the
property of said Mayor and Council of Salisbury, and shall be transferred
to the general money account of the city and used for any city purpose.

1908, ch. 310, sec. 155 (p. 1111).

285. Every deed given by the collector for land sold under this Act for
taxes shall contain a statement of the name of the owner of said land,
and when recorded shall be indexed under the name of the grantor,
grantees and the said owner or owners. The owner of any land so sold
may redeem the same at any time within one year of the date of ratifica-
tion of said sale by paying to said purchaser or to the clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court for use of said purchaser the amount of the purchase money
paid for said land, together with the costs and expenses incurred by him
in the ratification of sale and of deed and record, with fifteen per cent,
interest per annum on purchase money from day of sale, whereupon the
said purchaser shall reconvey said land to said owner, said land to be
free of all liens or claims, except such as were against it before said tax
sale. In case said purchaser or purchasers shall refuse or neglect to exe-
cute such deed or for any other cause fail to do so, the Circuit Court for
Wicomico county on a petition filed by said owner in the matter of the
collector's report of sale under oath, setting out the facts of the sale of
the property and the payment of the money, penalties and charges, as
herein required, or the tender and refusal thereof, may pass an order
to be served on said purchaser, or if he can not be found to be published
as directed by the court commanding said purchaser to be and appear in
said court on some certain day to be named therein, and show cause, if
any he have, why he should not reconvey said property, and if no cause
is shown as required the court shall pass a decree ordering that said prop-
erty be reconveyed to the said owner and appointing a trustee to convey
same to him in the same manner and as fully as said purchaser would do.
The cost of such petition and of the proceedings thereunder, including
reasonable fee to his solicitor in case it is granted, shall be paid by said
purchaser, and shall be ordered done so by the court. If said purchaser
shall fail to pay costs and charges for the period of thirty days after
decree, he may be adjudged guilty of contempt of court, and shall be con-
fined in the county jail until he purges himself therefrom. In all cases
of a sale of property for taxes the Mayor and Council of Salisbury or the
collector for them may buy same at a sum not to exceed the amount due
for the taxes, penalties and costs and expense of sale.

1908, ch. 310, sec. 156 (p. 1111).

286. The said clerk, treasurer and collector shall make an itemized
statement at the first regular meeting in each month or as often as they