1814 REVENUE AND TAXES. [ART. 81

property or not, the collector complying with the provisions of
the two precedings sections. This section shall not apply to
Garrett or Talbot counties.

Dyer v. Boswell, 39 Md. 465. Margraff v. Cunmngham's Heirs, 57 Md.
585.

1888, art. 81, sec. 52. 1860, art. 81, secs. 61 and 63. 1867, ch. 186. 1870, ch. 312.
1872, ch. 384. 1874, ch. 483, sec. 51. 1888, ch. 515. 1898, ch. 123, sec. 48.

1900, ch. 619. 1902, ch. 490. 1902, ch. 519.

53. In all cases where lands held in fee simple or by lease
have been sold according to law or shall be sold for payment
of taxes in arrear, it shall be the duty of the collector of taxes
to report the said sale, together with all proceedings had in
relation thereto, to the circuit court for the county where said
lands are situate or where said lands are situate in the city of
Baltimore to the circuit court or circuit court No. 2 of said
city; the court to which said report shall be made shall
examine the said proceedings, and if the same appear to be
regular and the provisions of law in relation thereto have
been complied with, shall order notice to be given by adver-
tisement published in such newspaper or newspapers as the
court shall direct, warning all persons interested in the prop-
erty 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 uo cause or an
insufficient cause be shown against the said ratification, the
said sole shall by order of said court be ratified and confirmed
and the purchaser shall, on payment of the purchase money,
have a good 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 taxes assessed on said real estate and
paid by the purchaser since said sale and all costs and expenses
properly incurred in 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 cost of the proceedings; but such sale shall not
be set aside if the provisions of law shall appear to have been