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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 2C7.

AN ACT to add additional sections to the Code of

Public Local Laws of Somerset county, entitled

" Revenue and Taxes."

SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General Assem-

Additional

bly of Maryland, That the following additional

sections add-

sections be and are hereby added to the Code of

ed.

Public Local Laws of Somerset county, entitled

" Revenue and Taxes," and to read as follows :

SECTION 1. In all cases where lands held in fee

Report sale.

simple, or by lease, or for life, or in any other man-

ner, have been sold or shall be sold for payment of

taxes in arrears in Somerset county according to

the provisions of the General Laws of this State, it

shall be the duty of the collector of taxes for said

county to report said sale, together with all the pro-

ceedings had in relation thereto, to the Circuit Court

for Somerset county, which shall examine the said

proceedings, and if the same appear to be regular,

and the provisions of said General Law in relation

thereto have been complied with, shall order notice

Warn per-
sons interest-

ed.

to be given by advertisement, published in such
newspaper as the court shall direct, warning all per-
sons 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 should

not be ratified and confirmed; and if no cause, or an

insufficient cause, be shown against the said ratifica-

tion, the said sale shall, by order of the said court,

be ratified and confirmed, and the purchaser 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

Sale may be

the premises, the said sale shall be set aside, in which

set aside.

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 pur-

chase money paid by him to the collector 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