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	time of payment; and if the purchaser has not paid
	the purchase money or the subsequent taxes, to apply
	the said proceeds 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 exceptioner to show the same
	to be invalid under the law.
	SEC. 2. 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 cal-
	endar months from the day of sale, an amount equal to the sum, with twenty-five per centum added there-	May redeem
	to, of the purchase money, of all costs properly in-
	curred by the said purchaser in securing the ratifi-
	cation of the said sale, and of all taxes assessed on said
	real estate and paid by said purchaser since said
	sale.
	SEC. 3. Whenever real estate or property of any
	description shall be exposed for sale by said Collect-
	or of Taxes for Somerset county under the provi-
	sions of the General Laws of this State, the State's
	Attorney for Somerset county may bid for and pur-
	chase the same at the sale thereof, for the use of the	Purchase for
	said county, if the said sale be for the collection of	use of county
	taxes, if, in his opinion, it shall be necessary and
	proper to do so for the protection of the interest of
	the said county ; provided the sum bid shall, in no
	case, exceed the amount of the State and county
	taxes assessed thereon, and the costs and expenses of
	sale.
	SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	Effective.
	effect from the date of its passage.
	Approved April 14, 1880.