PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1423

have been substantially complied with, shall order notice to
be given by advertisement in such newspaper or newspapers
as the court shall direct, 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 or sales should not be ratified, and confirmed;
and in those cases where no cause or an insufficient cause be
shown against such ratification, the court shall in one order
ratify and confirm the sale or sales so made, and the purchaser
or purchasers shall, on payment of the purchase money, have a
good title to the property sold; but if good judgment in the
judgment of the court be not shown in the premises in relation
to any parcel of land sold, said sale shall be set aside; as to
such parcel the clerk and treasurer who made such sale, and
having been set aside, shall, within thirty days, proceed to a
new sale of the property and bring the proceeds into court,
out of which the purchaser shall be paid the purchase money
paid by him to the said clerk and treasurer on said rejected
sale, and all taxes assessed on said real estate paid by the pur-
chaser since said sale, and cost and expenses properly incurred
in said court, with interest on such sums from the time of pay-
ment, and all sums expended by.said purchaser for the neces-
sary insurance, repair and preservation of the property so sold;
and if the purchaser has not been paid the purchase money
or the subsequent taxes for which said property may have
been sold, and all taxes thereon then in arrears with, interest
thereon according to law and the costs of proceedings; but
such sale shall not be set aside if the provisions of the law
appear to have been substantially complied with, and the bur-
den of the proof shall be on the exceptant to show the same
to be invalid; (f) that whenever real estate shall be sold by
the clerk and the treasurer for taxes, the owner thereof prior
to the day of sale may redeem the same by paying into court,
to be paid to the purchaser thereof within the period of two
years from the date of such sale, the amount of the purchase
money, and all subsequent taxes paid by the purchaser with
the interest thereon, at the rate of ten per cent, per annum
from the date of sale, and the date of payment of such taxes
respectively, and such as shall have been expended in the insur-
ance or necessary repairs and care of said property by the
purchaser, if any has been made; (g) that after the expiration
of two years from the date of such sale, provided the same
shall have been satisfied by the court, the Mayor and council
of Glen Echo shall by a good and sufficient deed, executed and
acknowledged according to law, convey to the purchaser or