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or newspapers as the court may 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 insufficient 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 relation to any parcel of said land,
the said sale shall be set aside as to the said parcel, in which case the clerk
of said town shall, within thirty (30) 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 money paid by him to the clerk on the said sale
rejected, and all taxes assessed on said real estate and paid by the pur-
chaser subsequent to said sale and cost 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 preservation of the property so sold; and if the purchaser has not paid
the purchase money or the subsequent taxes, said payment shall be applied
to the payment of the taxes for which said property may have been sold,
and all taxes thereon in arrears, with interest thereon according to law,
and the cost of proceedings; but such sale shall not be set aside if the pro-
visions 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. 800, sec. 17D. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 363.

530. Whenever real estate shall be sold by the clerk of said town, the
owner thereof may redeem the same by paying to the clerk to be paid to
the purchaser thereof at any time within the period of two years from the
date of said sale, the amount of the purchase money and all subsequent
taxes paid by the purchaser, with interest thereon at the rate of ten per
cent, per annum, from the date of sale and the date of payment of such
taxes, respectively, and such sum as shall have been expended in the insur-
ance or necessary repairs and care of said property by the purchaser, if
any has been made.

1906, ch. 800, sec. 17B. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 364.

531. After the expiration of two years from the date of such sale pro-
vided the same shall have been ratified by the court, the Mayor of said
town, shall by a good and sufficient deed, to be executed and acknowledged
according to law, convey to the purchaser or purchasers, the parcels of
land so sold; such deeds shall vest in the grantee an absolute estate in fee
simple, free from all liens and incumbrances whatever, except liens for
State, county or town taxes.

1906, ch. 800, sec. 17F. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 365.

532. Where any taxpayer of said town is assessed with personal prop-
erty alone, the clerk may in his discretion levy upon and sell the same