EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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this Act, all the powers possessed by collectors for Harford

County prior to the passage of the Act of 1898, Chapter 204.

2oH. The said treasurer shall, within thirty days after the

close of such sales, should any sale of real estate be made,

Must make

make a full report thereof to the Circuit Court for Harford

a full report
of sales to

County, setting forth his proceedings in the premises in detail,

Circuit

and showing to whom and what price the said parcels were

Court..

respectively sold, the amount of taxes, including arrears for

former years, interest accrued, the costs and expenses, and

the surplus fund in each instance ; with each report he shall also

file a copy of the printed list and notice aforesaid. The said

court shall examine said proceedings, and if the same appear to

be regular and the provisions of the law in relation thereto

have been complied with, shall order notice to be given, to be

advertised for two weeks in one newspaper published in said

town, if there is one published there; but if not, then in some

newspaper published in Harford County, warning all per-

sons interested in the property sold as aforesaid 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 should not be

ratified and confirmed, and in those cases where no cause or

sufficient cause be given against such ratification, the court

shall in one order ratify and confirm all sales so made and then

entitled to be ratified and confirmed, and the purchaser or pur-

chasers thereof shall in payment of the purchase money have

a good title to the property sold as aforesaid ; but if in the

To have a clear

judgment of the court cause be shown against the ratification

title to prop-
erty bought.

of the sale of any property so 'sold, the said sale shall be set

aside as to such property, in which case the said treasurer shall,

within thirty days thereafter, proceed to a new sale of the

property by at least three weeks' advertisement in one news-

paper as aforesaid, and the report of the same as hereinbefore

provided, and bring the proceeds thereon into court, out of

which the purchaser shall be repaid the money paid by him to

the said treasurer on the said rejected sale; and all taxes as-

sessed on said property and paid by the purchaser since said

sale, and costs and expenses incurred in said court, and the

costs and expenses of sales, with interest on all such sums from

the time of payment; and if the purchaser has not paid the

purchase money or subsequent taxes such proceeds shall be

applied to the payment of the taxes for which said property

may have been sold, including all arrears for former years

All arrears.

and all subsequent taxes then in arrears, with interest on the

same according to law, and the cost of the proceedings; but

such sale shall not be set aside if the provisions of the law shall