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 236 FEDERAL REPORTER. �largely in excess of any amount that the defendant had ex- pended for taxes and assessments paid since that date. There must, therefore, be a decree for the complainant, with costs, and a refererence to a master for an account. �Unless it can be satisfactorily shown that the defendant is pecuniarily responsible for the rents that are accruing, I will, on the application of the complainant, appoint a receiver to collect them, and to take charge of the property during the aceounting. �I inf er from the testimony of the defendant himself that he has allowed the premises to get sadly ont of repair. It is rarely that a case falls under the observation of the court ■where the conduot of the defendant has been more uncon- scionable. Since he became the purchaser his whole thought, evidently, has been to perpetuate his control. He has allowed the taxes for which he was responsible to remain unpaid from year to year, and has caused the property to be sold and resold for their payment, and in ail cases has become the pur- chaser for longer or shorter periods of time, as if by such methods he could increase the sums to be paid for the re- demption of the premises. He must be held accountable for the rents and income since the tender, if not for what the prop- erty would have produced with reasonable and proper dili- gence. The order of reference should direct the master to ascertain and report, not only the amounts and dates of pay- ments of the defendant on account of the property, but also the particular years for the non-payment of the taxes of which the real estate was sold; and, further, the amounts and dates and receipts of rents from the respective lots. ��� �