ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 537

month of June all the property sold in any one fiscal year,
and said sale shall continue from day to day, on each secular
day, legal holidays excepted, until all of said property so
advertised is sold, it being the intention and purpose of
this Act that the treasurer shall include In one advertise-
ment and embrace in one sale all the real estate sold by him
in any one fiscal year.

120A. The said county treasurer shall within thirty
days after the close of such sales make a full report thereof
to the Circuit Court for Caroline County, said report to
include all sales made by him, setting forth his proceedings
in the premises in detail, and showing to whom and at
what price said several parcels were respectively sold, the
amount of tax and interest accrued, the pro rata of cost of
advertising such sale, the county treasurer's fees, and all
other expenses and the surplus fund in each instance, with
which report he shall also file a copy of the printed list and
notice of sale. The said Court shall examine the said pro-
ceedings, and, if the said proceedings appear to be regular
and the provisions of law in relation thereto have been com-
plied with, shall order notice to be given by advertisement,
warning all persons interested in the property sold to be
and appear in said Court by a certain day to be named in
said order, to show cause, if any they have, why said sale
should not be ratified and confirmed; and after hearing the
objections, if any, the Court in its discretion shall in one
order ratify and confirm all sales so made and then entitled
to be ratified and confirmed, and the purchaser or pur-
chasers thereof shall, on payment of the purchase money,
have a good title to the property sold; but if, in the judg-
ment of the Court, good cause be shown against the ratifi-
cation of the sale of any parcel of land or other property
so sold, the said sale shall be set aside as to such parcel or
property, in which case the said County Treasurer shall
within thirty days proceed to a new sale of said property
and bring the proceeds into Court, out of which shall be
paid the purchase money paid to the County Treasurer on
said rejected sale, and all taxes assessed on said property
since said sale, and all costs and expenses properly incurred
in said Court, with interest on all such sums from the time
of payment, but such sale shall not be set aside if the pro-
visions of law shall appear to have been substantially com-
plied with, and the burden of proof shall be on the except-
ant to show the same to be invalid; and for the purpose of
making a just distribution of the proceeds of any sale rati-
fied and confirmed the said Court may pass all such other