PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1493
ten o'clock A. M. until three o'clock P. M. until every parcel
shall have been offered.
1898, ch. 354, sec. 193C.
499. Whenever it is necessary to sell personal property for
the payment of taxes, the bailiff shall seize and take into pos-
session so much of the goods and chattels of the delinquent tax-
payer as he may deem necessary to satisfy the taxes in arrear,
and make out a schedule of the same, and in the list of delin-
quent taxpayers it shall be sufficient to describe the same as a lot
of personal property assessed to the person named, and the sale
thereof shall be made from the schedule made at the time of the
seizure thereof; and the title to personal property so sold shall
pass to the purchaser at the time of such sale, with the right of
redemption at any time within 60 days, provided the former
owner shall within said period pay to the purchaser or the per-
son then owning the amount paid therefor, with ten per cent,
interest and all costs and expenses incurred.
Ibid. sec. 193D.
500. With respect to any parcel or parcels of land which
may be sold under the provisions of the preceding sections, the
bailiff shall, within twenty days after the conclusion of said
sale or sales, make and file in the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County a full report, setting forth his proceedings in the prem-
ises in detail, and also showing to whom and at what price the
several parcels were sold, the amount of tax, interest and pro-
portional part of the expense of advertising and legal cost in
each case, and shall also file with said report as part thereof a
copy of the printed list and notice as required in section 498.
If upon examination of said report the said court, or any judge
thereof, shall be of the opinion that the provisions of law have
been complied with substantially, it shall pass an order warning
all persons to show cause by a day to be therein named why the
said sale or sales should not be finally ratified and confirmed,
a copy of which order shall be published in some newspaper
printed in the said town of Rockville once in each of threee con-
secutive weeks before the day in said order named. At the ex-
piration of the time limited in said order the court shall in one
order ratify and confirm the sales in all cases in which no objec-
tions have been filed, and in all cases in which objections
have been filed, the court shall proceed to hear and deter-
mine the matter in all respects as now provided by law and the
rules and practice of the court And if for any cause the sale
of any of said parcels of land shall be set aside, the bailiff shall
at once proceed to readvertise the same, and shall sell the same
in. the manner hereinafter provided.
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