526 ARTICLE 2.

sell the same to the highest bidder for cash, the said treasurer having
first given twenty days' notice of the time, place and terms of such sale
by advertisement in one newspaper published in Annapolis, to be desig-
nated by the County Commissioners, and by printed handbills publicly
posted at said court house door, and at least ten places in the district
where the property is located, one of such notices to be placed upon the
premises; personal property may be sold upon ten days' notice by hand-
bills so posted in the district and at the courthouse; any advertised notice
of sale under the provisions of this section shall be deemed sufficient if it
contains the time, terms and place of such sale, the year or years for
which the taxes are due, to whom the property is assessed, the district
where located, the quantity of land, if land, offered for sale if there be
record evidence thereof, and a reference to the liber and folio where the
title for said property may be found; in no case shall a description by
meter and bounds be necessary, nor shall a greater sum than two dollars be
paid for any newspaper advertisement thereof, and it shall be the duty
of the treasurer to comply with the provisions of this section and enforce
tho collection of taxes so remaining unpaid before the first day of Jan-
uary next succeeding the time when he is herein required to compel the
payment of such taxes.

Amos v. Abromatis, 122 Md. 258. In Re Swann's Estate, 125 Md. 519. Abro-
matis v. Amos, 127 Md. 395.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 231. 1894, ch. 616. 1898, ch. 283. 1908, ch. 418.

1914 Code, sec. 355.

496. When any real estate shall be sold under the provisions of the
preceding section for taxes, the sale shall be reported to the Circuit Court
for said county by the treasurer, upon which report, if the Court shall
find the proceedings regular, and that the provisions of law in relation
thereto have been complied with, there shall be a brief order nisi passed
and a copy thereof published as in case of judicial sales by trustees, and
if no sufficient cause be shown to the contrary, the sale shall be ratified
by said court; but if sufficient cause be shown to the contrary, in the
judgment of said court, said sale shall be set aside, in which case the
treasurer shall proceed to a new sale of the property; upon the ratifica-
tion of such sale, the treasurer shall convey to the purchaser the property
purchased by him, upon payment of the costs of such deed by the pur-
chaser, and the bond of the treasurer shall be liable for the money paid
by the purchaser in the event of the sale not being so ratified, with inter-
est, and for all costs and expenses accruing from such sale; the treasurer
shall retain out of the proceeds of the sale, when ratified, the amount of
taxes and interest thereon, and costs of notices, levy sale and of the report
thereof to the court, and pay over any excess to the owner of the property
thus sold, after deducting therefrom a fee not exceeding two dollars in
each case as compensation to such person as the treasurer may select for
an examination and report as to the title of the property examined pre-
paratory to a sale of same for delinquent taxes, and such fee be a proper