EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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copy of the printed list and notice aforesaid. The said court

shall examine the said proceedings, and if the same appear

to be regular and the provisions of law in relation thereto 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 prop-

erty 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 be not ratified and confirmed ; and in those cases

where no cause or an insufficient cause be shown against such

ratification, the court shall in order ratify and confirm the sale

or sales so made, and the purchaser or purchasers shall, on pay-

Purchaser to
have good

ment of the purchase money, have a good title to the property

title to prop-

sold; but if good cause, in the judgment of the court, be shown

erty.

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 proceeds into court, out of which the

purchaser shall be paid the purchase money paid by him to

the Collector 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 incurred in said court, with interest on

such sums from the time of payment, and all sums expended

by the purchaser lor the necessary repairs, insurance 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

Payment of

arrears, with interest thereon according to law, and the cost of

taxes in ar-

the proceedings; but such sale shall not be set aside if the

rears on prop-
erty.

provisions of the law appear to have been substantially complied

with, and the burden of the proof shall be on the exceptant to

show the same to be invalid. And upon the ratification of such

sales by the court as aforesaid, the said Collectors shall pay

over to the Clerk of the County Commissioners of said county

all sums of money paid for property so sold in excess of the

taxes, interest, costs and fees as aforesaid, and the Clerk of

the County Commissioners shall keep a separate account of the

money so paid by him, which account shall show by whom the

same was paid, the name of the person to whom the property

sold was assessed when so sold, and the name and postoffice

address of the purchaser thereof at said sale. The several

sums of money in his hands under this section the Clerk of the

County Commissioners shall pay. on the order of the County