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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

together with all the proceedings had in relation

thereto, to the Circuit Court for Harford county,

Examine pro-

and the court shall examine said proceedings, and if

ceedings.

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 advertisement in

one weekly newspaper published in said county,

warning 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 confirmed, and

if no cause or an insufficient cause be shown against

Sale to be

the said ratification, the said sale shall by order of

ratified.

said court be ratified and confirmed, and the pur-

chasers shall on payment of 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 he set aside, in which

case the said bailiff 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 bailiff 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, and all such sums from the time of

payment; and if the purchaser has not paid the

How to apply.

purchase money or the subsequent taxes, to apply
said proceeds to the payment of the taxes for which

said real property may have been sold and all sub-

sequent 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 sub-

stantially complied with and the burden of proof

shall be on the cxceptant to show the same to be in-

valid under the law.

SECTION NINETEEN (XIX) D. And be it enacted.

Whenever real estate shall bo sold by the bailiff, the

owner thereof, prior to the sale, may redeem the

Owner may
redeem.

same by paying into court, to be paid to the pur-

chaser 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.