2072 WICOMICO COUNTY. [ART. 23.

notice to be given by advertisement, published in such news-
paper as the court shall direct, warning all persons interested
in the property sold, to be and appear by a certain day in the
said notice to be named, to show cause, if any they have, why
said sale shall not be ratified and confirmed; and if no cause, or
au insufficient cause be shown against the said ratification, the
said sale shall, by order of the said court, be ratified and con-
firmed; and the piirchaser shall, on payment of the purchase
money, have a good and indefeasible title to the property sold;
but if 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 collector 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 collector on
said rejected sale, and all the taxes assessed on said real estate
and paid by said purchaser since said sale, and all costs and ex-
penses 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 arrear, 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 excep-
tant to show the same to be invalid under the law.

1882, ch. 83.

95. Whenever real estate shall be sold by said collector, the
owner thereof prior to the sale may redeem the same by paying
into court, to be paid to the purchaser thereof within a period of
twelve calendar months from the day of sale, an amount equal to
the sum, with twenty-five per centum added thereto of the pur-
chase money, of all costs properly incurred by the said purchaser
in securing the ratification of the said sale, and of all taxes
assessed on said real estate and paid by said purchaser since said

sale.

Ibid.

96. Whenever real estate or property of any description shall
be exposed for sale by said collector of taxes for said county,