806 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 442

on the third Monday in September following the fiscal year
for which said taxes remain unpaid, or on such later date
as the Mayor and Town Council may determine, by adver-
tisement in a weekly newspaper having general circulation
in the town at least three weeks before such sale, which
said advertisement shall state the day of sale, the name of
the party in whom the property is assessed, if known, and
the amount of taxes due with interest, penalties and costs,
and also a description of the property sufficient to identify
the same, which said sale shall be held at some public place
in said town named in said advertisement, commencing at
a certain hour and a certain day named therein and con-
tinuing until all such real estate in default is sold; and the
amount of purchase money paid for any property at such
sale or sales shall bear interest at the rate of twelve per
centum per annum from the day of sale and until the same
be paid or the property deeded, as hereinafter provided.

In all cases where lands held in fee simple or by lease
have been sold, or shall be sold for taxes or street and side-
walk improvement assessments in arrears, as now or here-
after provided by law, it shall be the duty of the Town
Clerk to report the sale, together with all the proceedings
had in relation thereto, to the Circuit Court for Prince
George's County within sixty days thereafter. The said
Court shall examine the proceedings, and if the same ap-
pear to be regular and the. provisions of law in relation
thereto have been complied with, shall order notice to be
given by advertisement published for three consecutive
weeks in two newspapers such as the Court shall direct,
warning all persons interested in the property sold to be
and appear by 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 the ratification, the said sale shall,
by order of said Court, be ratified and confirmed, and the
purchaser shall, on payment of the purchase money, have
a good title to the said property so sold, subject to the re-
demption thereof as hereinafter provided; but if good
cause in the judgment of said Court be shown in the
premises, the said sale shall be set aside, in which case the
said Town Clerk shall proceed to a new sale of the said
property and bring the proceeds into Court, out of which
the purchaser shall be paid the purchase money paid by
him to the Town Clerk on said rejected sale, and all taxes
assessed on said real estate or leasehold estate and paid by
said purchaser since said sales and all costs and expenses
properly incurred in said Court, with interest on all sums