MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3425

provided that where ,two or more lots, pieces or parcels of real property
shall have been assessed to one person or corporation, the clerk and treas-
urer shall offer for sale and sell each of such lots, pieces or parcels of real
property separately until a sufficient amount shall have been realized to
pay the whole amount charged against such person or corporation, and
the remainder of such lots, pieces of* parcels of real property shall not be
offered for sale; provided further, that where a part of such real property
advertised for sale consists of a tract of land not sub-divided into town
lots then only such portion thereof shall be offered for sale and sold as
shall in the judgment of the council be sufficient to pay the whole amount
of taxes, interest, penalties, fees, costs and expenses due upon the whole
of such tract of land; should the clerk and treasurer deem it impracticable
to sell personal property liable for taxes at the time and place aforesaid,
then he may advertise and sell said personal property at different dates
and places as may seem most practicable to him in each case.

1906, ch. 384, sec. 16B. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 261.

431. The said clerk and treasurer shall within thirty days after the
close of such sale make a full report thereof to the Circuit Court for
Montgomery County setting forth his proceedings in the premises in de-
tail and showing to whom and for what price the said parcels were respec-
tively sold, the amount of taxes, penalties including arrears for former
years, interest accrued, the costs and expenses and the surplus fund in
each instance; with each report he shall also file a copy of the printed list
and notice aforesaid. The said court shall examine said proceeding 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 to be adver-
tised for two weeks in a newspaper published in said county, warning all
persons interested in the property 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 no 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 pur-
chasers thereof shall in payment of the purchase money have a good title
to the property sold 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
clerk and treasurer shall within thirty days thereafter proceed to a new
sale of the property by at least three weeks' advertisement in a newspaper
as aforesaid, and make 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 clerk and treasurer on
the said rejected sale, and all taxes assessed on said property and paid by
the purchaser since said sale and costs and expenses incurred in said

*"Or" evidently intended.