EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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to libers and folios thereof of the records in the Clerk's office

by comparing said references with the libers and folios referred

to by the Treasurer. The said Clerk shall receive a fee of

twenty-five cents for verifying each and every reference to the

liber and folio set out in the Treasurer's list, the said fees to

be taxed as costs in the tax sale about to be made by the said

Treasurer; and the said Clerk shall receive five dollars, to be

paid him by the Commissioners of the county for filing a report

of tax sales made by the Treasurer, as hereinbefore provided,

docketing the same and making other entries relative thereto.

The said Treasurer, before bringing up his report of sales to

the Judge of the Circuit Court for ratification shall, first file

a supplementary report to be entered on the docket by the

Clerk of the court simply as "filed," showing all the property

redeemed from such sales and to which exceptions have not

been filed, so that the Judge taking cognizance of said report

shall be able to ratify only such sales as have not been redeemed

or exceptecl to, or if excepted to in cases where the exceptions

have been dismissed by him. The Clerk of said court shall

receive by the party requiring any service therein the

same fees allowed for similar service in ordinary equity suits.

Fees.

Tax proceedings so filed before him shall not be actually re-

corded when the Treasurer's report is handed to the court for

ratification where no exceptions thereto have been filed; the

court, if it considers the law to have been complied with, shall

pass one general order of ratification of all unredeemed tax

sales, and the Clerk of said court shall enter on such list of

unredeemed tax sales "Sales ratified." But where exceptions

have been filed to any such tax sales the exceptions shall be

heard by the court in the usual manner that exceptions have

been filed to any such tax sales "Sales ratified." But when

exceptions have been filed to any such tax sales, the exceptions

shall be heard by the court in the usual manner that exceptions

in chancery are generally heard ; and if said exceptions or any

of them are sustained the Clerk shall enter on his docket "Ex-

ceptions sustained and sale set aside ;" and where such excep-

tions have been overruled, "Exceptions overruled and sale rati-

Exceptions

overruled.

fied," designating the particular piece or pieces of property

to which the rulings of the court shall apply.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.