PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1123

three o'clock P. M., and if necessary, continue thereafter from
day to day between said hours until all of said property shall
have been sold, and the amount of purchase money paid for
any property at such sale or sales shall bear interest at the rate
of twelve per cent., per annum, from the day of sale and until
the same be paid, or the property deeded, as hereinafter pro-
vided.

SEC. 228. In all cases where lands held in fee simple or
by lease have been sold, or shall be sold for the payment of taxes
in arrears, it shall be the duty of the collector to report the
sale, together with all the proceedings had in relation thereto
to the Circuit Court for Prince George's County within thirty
days thereafter. The said Court shall examine the proceed-
ings, and if the same appear to be regular, and the provisions
of law in relation thereto have been complied with., shall order
notice to be given by advertisement published in such news-
paper or newspapers as the Court shall direct, warning all
persons interested in the property sold, to be and appear by
certain day in the said notice to be named, to show cause, if
any they have, why said sale should not be ratified and con-
firmed; and if no cause or an insufficient cause be shown against
the ratification, the said sale shall, by order of said Court, be
ratified and confirmed, and the purchaser shall, on payment
of the purchase money, have a good title to the said property
so sold; but if good cause in the judgment of 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 said
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 or leasehold estate and paid by said purchaser
since said sales and all costs and expenses properly incurred
in said Court, with interest on all sums from the time, of pay-
ment at the rate of twelve per cent, per annum; and if the
purchaser has not paid the purchase money on the subsequent
taxes, the Collector shall apply such proceeds to the payment
of the taxes for which said property may have been sold, and
all subsequent taxes then in arrears with interests on the same
according to law and the costs of proceedings; but such sales
shall not be set aside if the provisions of the 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. The Collector shall require the purchaser of
such property on the day of sale, or the day next succeeding,
to pay on account of said purchase the amount assessed or taxed