JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 744

the provisions of law in relation thereto have been
complied with, shall order notice to be given by ad-	Notice to be
vertisement published in such newspapers as the	given.
court shall direct, warning all persons interested in
the property sold, to be and appear by a certain day,
in the said notice to be named, to show cause if any
they have why said sale should not be ratified and
confirmed ; and if no cause, or an insufficient cause be
shown against the said ratification the said sale, shall
by order of said court, be ratified and confirmed and	Be ratified and
the purchaser shall, on payment of the purchase	confirmed
money, have a good title to the property sold, but if
good cause, in the judgment of the said court, be
shown in the premises, the said sale shall be set aside;
in which case the said collector shall proceed to a
new sale of the property, and bring the proceeds
into court, out of which the purchaser shall be repaid
the purchase money, paid by him to the collector on
said rejected sale, and all taxes assessed on said real
estate and paid by said purchaser since said sale, and
all costs and expenses properly incurred in the said
court, with interest, and all such sums from the time
of payment; and if the purchaser has not paid the
purchase money or the subsequent taxes, to apply said	To apply said
proceeds to the payment of the taxes for which said	proceeds.
real property may have been sold, and all subsequent
taxes thereon then in arrears with interest on the
same according to law, and the cost of the proceed-
ings; but such sale shall not be set aside if the pro-
visions of law shall appear to have been substantially
complied with ; and the burden of proof shall be on
the exceptant, to show the same to be invalid under
the law.
SEC. 52. Every collector, making sale of property	Shall be enti- tled to
for the payment of taxes, shall be entitled to the
same fees as a sheriff for selling property under exe-
cution.
SEC. 53. On any property being distrained or ad- vertised for sale for public dues or taxes, if the per-	Shall apply under oath
son whose property has been so executed shall apply
to the county commissioners, or Mayor of the City
of Baltimore, or the President of either branch of
the City Council, alleging, under oath, that the whole
sum, or any part thereof, for which such distress has
been made, is not due for public dues or taxes, the