Sec[Section] 4 assessors shall hereafter have until the twentieth day of August annually to make their returns to the clerks of the county commissioners’ courts of their respective counties

Sec ^5^ In all cases where lands shall have been, or may be sold, by any sheriff, under the provisions of the act recited in the first section herein, and such sheriff shall be succeeded in office, by another person, the successor, of such sheriff, is hereby authorized to execute deeds to the purchasers thereof in like manner as if the sales of said lands had been conducted by him; and such deeds so executed by him, shall follow as near as may be after the form prescribed in the forty second section of said act, and shall in all respects possess the same validity and efficacy as if made by the sheriff conducting the sales of the lands therein described