The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-05-30
Public Local Laws
SHERIFF'S DISTRIBUTION OF
SURPLUS
Continued from page a.

AN ACT to provide for the distribu-
ton in certain cases of the surplus
funds remaining in the hands of any
Sheriff or ex-Sheriff of Cecil County
from tax sales.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That in any and all
cases of sales of property by the Sheriff or ex-
Sheriff of Cecil County for the purpose of
enforcing the collection OF any municipal,
County or State taxes, where there shall re-
main in the hands of said Sheriff or ex-
Sheriff after the payment of said taxes and
proper interest thereon and all legal costs and
expenses in connection with said sale and the
collection of said taxes, a surplus of the pro-
ceeds of such sale, and it shall be uncertain
who is entitled to receive said surplus any
portion thereof, or some or all of those per-
sons entitled to receive said surplus shall be
non-residents of the State of Maryland and
whether said person or persons are adults or
infants, and whether said persons are non
compos mentis or not, it shall be lawful for
any person interested in or emitted in any
way to any part of said surplus to file petit
ton in the Circuit Court for Cecil County in
the proceedings under which said tax sale was
had, in which petition shall be set forth the
facts the interest of the petitioner in said sur
plus is based and asking that all persons in
terested in said surplus may pe required to
come into Court to prove their claims to said
surplus, and that distribution OF said surplus
shall be made by said Sheriff or eX-Sheriff to
the persons entitled thereto; ana tnereupon
the said Court may pass an order directing
that notice of the substance and object of such
petition shall be given to all persons interest
ed in said surplus by actual service upon
them if they are known and are residents of
the State of Maryland. and if they are not
known non-residents of the State of
Maryland, and whether infants adults, and
whether non compos mentis of sound mind
by publication of said notice in some newspa-
per published in Cecil County once a week for
three successive weeks warning them to APP
pear by day to be named in said order and
notice and answer said petition and prove
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any time after the day upon which appear
ance and answer is required to be made as
aforesaiu, said petitioner or any person who
may have appeared and answered said petition
may upon proper application to said Court ask
to have said proceedings referred to the Audi
tor of the Court with directions to take such
testimony as may be produced TO MIN by any
of the parties interested, touching the matter
of said petition and from said testimony and
proceedings to state an account distributing
said surplus which said account the said Au-
ditor shall with the testimony taken by him
return to the Court on or before day to be
named by said Court and thereupon the said
Court shall set down said petition and pro-
ceedings hereunder for final hearing, and it
shall then be determined by said Court as to
what persons are entitled to receive said sur
plus, and when so decided said Court shall
pass an order directing said Sheriff or
Sheriff as the case may be to pay said
surplus in accordance with the decision and
finding of said Court, and said Sheriff or ex-
Sheriff shall not be held liable in any respect
for so doing, and there shall be no appeal from
the decision of said Court in the premises.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 10, 1914.
p. l.. GOLDSBOROUGH,
Governor.
JAMES McC. Triple,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
JESSE d. PRICE,
Office of the Chief Clerk of the House.
| Hereby Certify, That the afore-
going is true copy of an Act of the
General Assembly of Maryland, pass
ed at the January Session, 1914.
ALBERT J. ALMONEY,
Chief Clerk of the House.