538 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 294

or subsequent orders as may be just and equitable, and
shall have as full and complete jurisdiction as though it
were sitting as a Court of Equity.

120B. After the expiration of twelve calendar months
from the date of such sale, provided the same has been
finally ratified by the Court, the County Treasurer making
such sale shall by good and sufficient deed, to be executed
and acknowledged according to law, convey to the pur-
chaser or purchasers the parcels of land sold to them, re-
spectively, and the deed of the successor in office of the
County Treasurer who made such sale shall be as good and
valid in law as though it had been executed and delivered
by the said last-named County Treasurer.

120C. In the event that any former or preceding County
Treasurer shall have failed, for any cause, to make a full
report or take any other proceedings that might be re-
quired by law of any tax sale or sales made by him to the
Circuit Court for Caroline County as provided for in Sec-
tion 120A'and Section 120B of this Article, then the present
Treasurer or any succeeding Treasurer is hereby author-
ized, empowered and directed to make such report of said
tax sale or sales to the Circuit Court for Caroline County
and take such other proceedings therein as by law may be
requisite which the Treasurer making said tax sale or sales
should have done and was by law empowered and required
so to do, and the said Circuit Court shall have such power
to ratify said tax sale or sales in the same manner as if
said sale or sales had been reported by the Treasurer mak-
ing the same, and upon the final ratification by the Circuit
Court for Caroline County of said tax sale or sales the said
present Treasurer or any succeeding Treasurer is hereby
authorized, empowered and directed to execute and deliver
unto the said purchaser or purchasers at said tax sale or
sales made by such former or preceding Treasurer a deed
to said property so purchased and such deed shall be as
good and valid in law as though it had been executed by
the Treasurer making said tax sale or sales.

120D. Whenever any real estate shall be sold for taxes,
the owner thereof or any person having any interest in
same, prior to the sale, his heirs, personal representatives
or assigns, or his, or her or their agent or attorneys, or any
mortgagee, or other lien holders, may redeem the same by
paying into said court, within the period of twelve calendar