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Tax Collectors
sale of proper-
ty for taxes.
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223. That each of said tax collectors shall, within thirty
days after the close of the sales respectively made, herein
provided for, make a full report of sales by them to the
Circuit Court for Montgomery County, setting forth his pro-
ceedings in the premises in detail, and showing to whom and
at what price such several parcels were severally sold the amount
of tax, the interest accrued, proportional cost of advertising
such sale, and the cost and expenses of making and reporting
said sales, including a reasonable counsel fee, and of the sur-
plus fund in each instance, with such report he shall also file
a copy of the printed list and notice aforesaid. The said
court shall examine the said proceedings and if the same ap-
pear to be regular and the provisions of law in relation thereto
to have been substantially complied with, shall order notice to
be given by advertisement in such newspaper or newspapers
as the court shall direct, warning all persons interested in the
property sold to be and appear in said court by a certain day
to be named in said order to show cause, if any they have,
why said sale or sales should not be ratified and confirmed;
and in those cases where no cause, or an insufficient cause be
shown against such ratification, the court shall, in one order,
ratify and confirm the sale or sales so made and the purchaser or
purchasers shall, on payment of the purchase money, have a
good title to the property sold; but if good cause, in the judg-
ment of the court, be shown in the premises in relation to any
parcel of land sold, the said sale shall be set aside as to such
parcel, in which case the tax collector in whose district the
sale so set aside shall have been made, shall, within thirty
days, proceed to a new sale of the property and bring the pro-
ceeds into court, out of which the purchaser shall be paid the
purchase money paid by him to the collectors on said rejected
sale, and all taxes assessed on said real estate and paid by the
purchaser since said sale and costs and expenses properly in-
curred in said court, with interest on such sums from the time
of payment and all sums expended by such purchaser for the
necessary insurance, repair and preservation of the property
so sold, and if the purchaser has not paid the purchase money
or the subsequent taxes, said payment shall be applied to the
payment of the taxes, for which said property may have been
sold, and all taxes thereon then in arrears with interest
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