1404 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 700]

amount shall have been realized to pay the whole amount charged
against such person or corporation, and the remainder of such
lots, pieces of parcels of real property shall not be offered for
sale; provided further, that where a part of such real property
advertised for sale consists of a tract of land not sub-divided
into town lots then only such portion thereof shall be offered
for sale and sold as shall in the judgment of the council be
sufficient to pay the whole amount of taxes, interest, penalties,
fees, costs and expenses due upon the whole of such tract of
land; should the clerk and treasurer deem it impracticable to
sell personal property liable for taxes at the time and place
aforesaid, then he may advertise and sell said personal prop-
erty at different dates and places as may seem most practicable
to him in each case.

1906, ch. 384, sec. 16B.

261. The said clerk and treasurer shall within thirty days
after the close of such sales make a full report thereof to the
Circuit Court for Montgomery County setting forth his pro-
ceedings in the premises in detail and showing to whom and
for what price the said parcels were respectively sold, the
amount of taxes, penalties 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 proceeding and if the same appear to be regular
and the provisions of the law in relation thereto have been com-
plied with, shall order notice to be given to be advertised for
two weeks in a newspaper published in said county, warning
all persons 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 no 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 pur-
chaser or purchasers thereof shall in payment of the purchase
money have a good title to the property sold aforesaid; but if
in the judgment of the court cause be shown against the ratifi-
cation of the sale of any property so sold, the said sale shall
be set aside as to such property, in which case the said clerk and
treasurer shall within thirty days thereafter proceed to a new
sale of the property by at least three weeks' advertisement in a
newspaper as aforesaid, and make 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