ART. 13.] HAVRE DE GRACE. 1345 .

court shall examine said proceedings, and if the same appear to
be regular, and the provisions of kw in relation thereto have
been complied with, shall order notice to be given by advertise-
ment in one weekly newspaper published in said county, warning
all persons interested in the property sold, to be and appear on a
certain day in the said notice to be named, to show cause, if any
they have, why said sale should not be ratified and confirmed;
and if no cause or an insufficient cause be shown against the said
ratification, the said sale shall, by order of said court, be ratified
and confirmed, and the purchasers shall, on payment of the pur-
chase money, have a good title to the property sold; but if a
good cause in the judgment of the said court be shown in the
premises, the said sale shall be set aside, in which case the said
bailiff shall proceed to a new sale of the property, and bring the
proceeds into court, out of which the purchaser shall be repaid
the purchase money paid by him to the bailiff on said rejected
sale, and all taxes assessed on said real estate, and paid by said
purchaser since said sale, and all costs and expenses properly
incurred in the said court, with interest on all such sums from
the time of payment; and if the purchaser has not paid the
purchase money or the subsequent taxes, said proceeds shall be
applied to the payment of the taxes for which said real property
may have been sold, and all subsequent taxes thereon then in
arrears, with interest on the same, according to law, and the costs
of the proceedings; 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 under the law.

1882, ch. 220.

159. Whenever real estate shall be sold by the bailiff, the
owner thereof prior to such sale may redeem the same by paying
into court, to be paid to the purchaser thereof within the period
of twelve calendar months from the date of such sale, the
amount of the purchase money, with interest thereon at the rate
of fifteen per cent, per annum from the date of the sale.

1878, ch. 440

160. The mayor and city council may lay ont and continue
to the Susquehanna river and the basin of the Tidewater canal,
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