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LAWS OP MARYLAND.

157. The real estate of a delinquent tax-payer may be sold to

Real es-

pay city taxes, whether there be personal property or not, the

tate.

tax collector complying with the provisions of the two preceding

sections.

158. In all cases where lands held in fee-simple or by a lease

shall be sold for payment of taxes in arrears, according to the

provisions of existing laws, it shall be the duty of the tax col-

lector to report the said sale, together with all the proceedings

had in relation thereto to the circuit court for Harford county,

and the court shall examine 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 in one weekly newspaper published in said county, warn-

ing all persons interested in the property sold to be and appear

on 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 con-

firmed, and if no cause or an insufficient cause be shown against

the said ratification, the said sale shall by order of said court be

ratified and confirmed, and the purchasers shall on payment of

Proceed-
ings.

the purchase money have a good title to the property sold; but

if a 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 tax 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 tax 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 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 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 excep-

tant to show the same to be invalid under the law.

159. Whenever real estate shall be sold by the tax collector,

the owner thereof prior to such sale, may redeem the same by

Redeem.

paying into court to be paid to the purchaser thereof within the

period of twelve calendar months from the date of such sale, the

amount of the purchase money with interest thereon at the rate

of fifteen per cent, per annum from the date of the sale.

183. The mayor and city council are authorized and empowered

to pass ordinances to encourage the location and establishment in

the city of manufactories and manufacturing industries and en-

terprises and the growth and development of those already es-