PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1011

be sufficient in the advertisement of the list of delinquent tax-
payers to designate the quantity of land to be sold from the
property described as per plat and description to be exhibited
at the time of sale, and in case of sale the registrar shall file
the said plat and description with his report of sale.

SEC. 66. The said registrar shall within thirty days after
the close of such sale make a full report thereof to the Circuit
Court for Howard County, setting forth his proceedings in the
premises in detail, and showing to whom and at what price
such several parcels were respectively sold, the amount of tax
and interest accrued, the pro rata of costs of advertising such
sale, and all other expenses and the surplus fund in each
instance; with such report he shall file a copy of the printed
list and notice of sale. The said Court shall examine the said
proceedings, and if the same appear to be regular and the pro-
visions of law in relation thereto have been complied with, shall
order notice to be given by advertisement, 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 should not be ratified and con-
firmed ; and after hearing the objection, if any, the Court in
its discretion shall in one order ratify and confirm all sales
so made and then entitled to be ratified, and confirmed, and the
purchaser or purchasers thereof shall on payment of the pur-
chase money, have a good title to the property sold; but if in
judgment of the Court good cause be shown against the ratifica-
tion of the sale of any parcel of land or other property so sold,
the said sale shall be set aside as to such parcel or property, in
which case the said registrar shall within thirty days proceed
to a new sale of said property, and bring the proceeds into
Court, out of which he shall be paid the purchase money paid
to the registrar on said rejected sale, and all taxes assessed on
said property since said sale, and all costs and expenses prop-
erly incurred in said Court, with interest on all such sums
from the time of payment; but such sale shall not be set aside
if the provisions of the law appear to have been substantially
complied with, and the burden of proof shall be on the exceptant
to show the same to be invalid; and for the purpose of making
a just distribution of the proceeds of any sale ratified and con-
firmed, the said Court may pass all such orders as may be just
and equitable, and shall have as full and complete jurisdiction
as though it were sitting as a Court of equity.

SEC. 67. Whenever real estate shall be sold by the registrar
the owner thereof prior to the sale may redeem the same by
paying into the said Court, to be paid to the purchaser thereof,