502 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

gage claim remaining due, before the judge of said court or be-
fore any justice of tte peace of this State, the official character
of any justice of the peace for any county, being certified under
his official seal by the clerk of the circuit court for the county
where the affidavit is made, where the affidavit is made outside
of the city of Baltimore, or before any person outside of this
State authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds; and such
statement shall be filed in said court.

Hays v. Dorsey, 5 Md. 99. Brooks v Hays, 24 Md. 507. Md Perm. Land
& Build Society of Balto, v. Smith, 41 Md. 516.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 784.

694. Such sales and the conveyances thereupon shall have the
same effect, if finally ratified by said court, as if the same had
been made under decrees between the proper parties in relation
to the mortgages, and in the usual course of said court.

Gatchell v. Presstman, 5 Md. 161. McDowell v. Goldsmith, 6 Md. 319.
The Monumental Building Asso. No. 2 v. Herman, 33 Md. 128. Morrill v.
Gelston's Lessee, 34 Md. 413 Rau v. Robertson, 58 Md. 506. White v.
McClellan, 62 Md. 357.

Ibid. sec. 785.

695. The trustee or trustees shall report the sales to the court
for its consideration and ratification or rejection; and such orders
shall pass therein touching such ratification as are usual on sales
of mortgaged property in said court.

Hardy v. Smith, 41 Md. 1.

Ibid. sec. 786.

696. Any allegations may be made, and proof under the
orders of the said court exhibited, and a trial of the allegations
had as the court shall prescribe, to show that the sales ought not
to have been made.

Equitable Mutual Land Improvement Asso. v.. Becker, 45 Md. 632.

Ibid. sec. 787.

697. The said court, upon being satisfied of the truth of said
allegations, shall reject and set aside the sale, and in such case no
part of the costs or expenses or trustee's commission, if any such
commission be claimable, in relation to the said sales, shall be