PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. 4121

if the same appear to be regular and the provisions of the law in relation
thereto have been complied with, shall order notice be given by advertise-
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 such 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
ratified and confirmed, and the purchaser or purchasers thereof shall on
payment of the purchase money, have a good title to the real estate sold,
but if in the judgment of the Court, good cause be shown against the ratifi-
cation of the sale of any parcel of land or other real estate so sold the
said sale shall be set aside as to such parcel or real estate in which case
the said Treasurer, shall within thirty days proceed to a new sale of said
real estate and bring the proceeds into Court, out of which shall be paid
the purchase money paid to the Treasurer on said rejected sale, and all
taxes assessed on said real estate since said sale, and all costs and expenses
properly incurred in said Court, with interest on all such sums from time
of payment; but such sale shall not be set aside if the provisions of the
law appear to have been substantially complied with, and the burden of
proof shall be on the exceptaiit 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 orders as may be
just and equitable; and shall have as full and complete jurisdiction aa
though it were sitting as a Court of Equity.

1924, ch. 391, sec. 610D.

1011. Wherever real estate shall be sold by the Town Treasurer, the
owner thereof prior to the sale, may redeem same by paying in to said
Court to be paid to the purchaser thereof within the period of twelve calen-
dar months from the date of such sale the amount of the purchase money,
all subsequent taxes paid by the purchaser, and all Court costs, with in-
terest thereon, at the rate of twenty per centum per annum from date of
sale, and the date of the payment of such taxes and costs respectively.
After the expiration of said period of twelve calendar months, provided
the real estate has not been redeemed and the sale finally ratified and con-
firmed by the Court the Town Treasurer then in office shall, at the expense
of the purchaser by a good and sufficient deed executed and acknowledged
according to law, convey to the purchaser or purchasers the parcel or par-
cels of land sold by them respectively, and the deed of the successor in
office of the Treasurer who made the sale shall be valid in law as though
it had been executed and delivered by the said last named Treasurer.

1924, ch. 391, sec. 610E.

1012. The Commissioners of Upper Marlboro may purchase in their
discretion any real estate for sale for the payment of taxes, provided they
shall not bid a sum greater approximately than the taxes in arrears on said
real estate and the interest and expense of sale and costs and may sell and