HARFORD COUNTY. 2885

published in Harford County, warning all persons interested in the prop-
erty 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 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 purchaser or purchasers thereof shall in payment
of the purchase money have a good title to the property sold as aforesaid ;
but if in the judgment of the court cause be shown against the ratification
of the sale of any property so sold, the said sale shall be set aside as to
such property, in which case the said treasurer shall, within thirty days
thereafter, proceed to a new sale of the property by at least three weeks'
advertisement in one newspaper as aforesaid, and 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 paid by him to the said
which the purchaser shall be repaid the money paid by him to the said
treasurer on the said rejected sale; and all taxes assessed on said prop-
erty and paid by the purchaser since said sale, and costs and expenses in-
curred in said court, and the costs and expenses of sales, with interest
on all such sums from the time of payment; and if the purchaser has
not paid the purchase money or subsequent taxes such proceeds shall be
arpplied to the payment of the taxes for which said property may have
been sold, including all arrears for former years and all subsequent taxes
then in arrears, with interest on the same according to law, and the cost
of the proceedings; but such sale shall not be set aside if the provisions
of the law shall aippear to be substantially complied with and the burden
of proof shall be on the exceptant to show the same to be invalid; and with
reference to any sale or sales not ratified by the said order and for the
purpose of making a just distribution of the proceeds of any sale ratified
and confirmed, the said court may pass all such other or subsequent orders
as may be just and applicable, and shall have a full and complete juris-
diction as though it were sitting as a court of equity, to pass all such
orders as it shall deem just and equitable for the purpose of advancing
the remedy proposed and the aim and purpose of this Act, and of doing
full and complete justice to all parties interested according to the equity
of the matter.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 34.

37. If for any reason payment of taxes levied is not enforced by the
sale of the property on the first Monday of December next succeeding the
date of the levy, then and in that case the treasurer shall have the authority
at any time thereafter, upon the order of the Town Commissioners, to
enforce the payment thereof by sale of the property by making up a
similar list and giving similar notices to those required by Sections 35
and 36, and he shall report such sales and they shall be acted upon by the
court in the manner prescribed by said sections.

*"Thereof" evidently intended.