3018 ARTICLE 13.

ment 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 should not be ratified and confirmed; and
after hearing the objections, if any, the Court in its discretion shall in
one order ratify and confirm all sales so made and then entitled to be rati-
fied and confirmed, and the purchaser or purchasers thereof shall, on pay-
ment 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 ratifica-
tion of the sale of any parcel of land or other property so sold, the said
sale shall be set aside as to such parcel or property; in which case the said
treasurer shall within thirty days proceed to a new sale of said property
and bring the proceeds into Court, out of which shall be repaid the pur-
chase money paid to the treasurer on said rejected sale, and all taxes
assessed on said property since said sale, and all costs and expenses prop-
erly incurred in said Court, with interest on all such sums from the time
of payment; but such sale shall not be set aside if the provisions of law
shall appear to have been substantially complied with, and the burden
of proof shall be on the exceptant to show the same to be invalid; 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 subse-
quent orders as may be just and equitable, and shall have as full and com-
plete jurisdiction as though it were sitting as a Court of Equity.
Shanahan v. Maulsby, 129 Md. 494.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 479.

480. After the expiration of twelve calendar months from the date of
such sale, provided the same has been finally ratified by the Court, the
treasurer then in office shall by good and sufficient deed duly executed
and acknowledged according to law, convey to the purchaser or purchasers
the parcels of land sold to them respectively, and the deed of the succes-
sor in office of the treasurer who made such sale shall be as good and
valid in law as though it had been executed and delivered by the said last-
named treasurer.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 480.

481. Whenever real estate shall be sold by the treasurer the owner
thereof prior to the sale, his or her heirs, may redeem the same by paying
into Court to be paid to the purchaser thereof, within the period of twenty-
four calendar months from the date of such sale, the amount of the pur-
chase money and all subsequent taxes paid by the purchaser, with interest
thereon at the rate of ten per centum from the date of sale, and the date
of such payment of taxes, respectively.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 481.

482. The County Commissioners of Harford County are hereby au-
thorized and empowered in their discretion to purchase any property for
sale for the payment of taxes; provided they shall not bid a sum greater