PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1515

sonable counsel fee, and of the surplus fund in each instance;
with such, report he shall also file a copy of the printed list and
notice aforesaid. The said court shall examine the said pro-
ceedings and if the same appear to be regular and the provisions
of law in relation thereto 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 insuf-
ficient 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 cause,
in the judgment of the court, be shown in the premises in rela-
tion to any piece or parcel of land sold, the said sale shall be set
aside, as to such piece or parcel in which case the clerk and
treasurer 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 paid by him to the clerk
and treasurer on said rejected sale, and all taxes assessed on
said real estate and paid by the purchaser since said sale, and
costs and expenses properly incurred in said court, with interest
on such sums from the time of payment, and all sums expended
by such purchaser for the necessary insurance, repair and pre-
servation of the property so sold; and if the purchaser has not
paid the purchase money, all the subsequent taxes, said pay-
ment shall be applied to the payment of the taxes for which
said property may have been sold, and all taxes thereon then, in
arrears, with interest thereon, according to law, and the cost of
proceedings; but such sale shall not be set aside if the provisions
of 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.

1906, ch. 795, sec. 16E.

555. That whenever real estate shall be sold by the clerk
and treasurer, the owner thereof for whose delinquent taxes
said property shall have been so sold, may at any time within
two years from the date of such sale redeem the same by paying
into court to be paid to the purchaser thereof the amount of the
purchase money, and all subsequent taxes paid by the purchaser
with interest thereon at the rate of ten per centum per annum
from the date of sale and the date of payment of such taxes,
respectively, and such sums as shall have been expended in the