HARFORD COUNTY. 2969

with a description of the property upon which taxes are due and in arrear,
and the amount of tax levied and in arrear thereon, with the interest and
costs and expenses accrued and to accrue thereon to the day of sale, to
which list shall be appended a notice that if the said taxes are not paid
on or before the second Monday in April next ensuing, together with the
accrued interest, cost and expenses thereon, the City Treasurer will pro-
ceed at ten o'clock A. M. on that day at the City Hall, in said City, to
offer each and every of said parcels of land, premises or other property,
for sale to the highest bidder for cash, which said list and notice shall be
published in two newspapers if so many be printed in said City for four
successive weeks prior to the first Monday in April, and on the said
second Monday in April, the said Treasurer shall proceed to sell any and
all such pieces or parcels of land and premises and personal property upon
which said taxes, interest, costs and expenses shall not then have been
paid, and shall continue such sale each day, Sundays and legal holidays
excepted, from ten o'clock A. M. until three o'clock P. M. until every
parcel and all such property shall have been offered. Should it for any
reason appear to said Treasurer to be impracticable to sell personal prop-
erty liable for taxes as aforesaid, at the time and place aforesaid, then
the Treasurer may advertise, offer and sell such personal property at dif-
ferent dates and places, as may seem to him most practicable in each case,
but always advertising such sales as aforesaid, and holding the same as
soon as practicable after the said second Monday in April.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 314.

309. The said City Treasurer shall within thirty days after the close
of such sale or offering, should any sale or sales be made, make a full
report thereof to the Circuit Court for Harford County, setting forth his
proceedings in the premises in detail, and showing to whom and at what
price such several parcels were respectively sold, the amount of tax
thereon and interest accrued, and pro rata cost of advertising such sale,
the Treasurer's fees and the surplus fund in each instance, with which
report he shall also file a copy of the printed list and notice aforesaid.
The said Court shall examine the said proceedings, and if the same appear
to be regular, and the provisions of the law in relation thereto have been
complied with, shall order notice to be given by advertisement in two
newspapers if so many be published in said City, warning all persons
interested in the property sold to be and appear in said Court by a cer-
tain day, to be named in said order, to show cause, if any there be, why
said sale shall not be ratified and confirmed; and in those cases where
no cause, or an insufficient cause to be given against such ratification, the
Court may in one order ratify and confirm all sales so made and entitled
to be ratified and confirmed, and the purchaser or purchasers thereof shall,
on payment of the purchase money, have a good title to the property sold;
but if in the judgment of the Court good cause be shown against the
ratification of the sale of any parcel of land or other property so sold,
and the said sale shall be set aside as to such parcel or property, in which