LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

town, warning all persons interested in the property sold, to be
and appear in said court on or before a certain day named in
the notice, to show cause, if any they have, why said sale shall
not be ratified and confirmed. And if no cause, or an insuffi-
cient cause, be shown against the ratification, the said sale, by
order of any judge of said court, shall be ratified and con-
firmed. And the purchaser, upon payment of the purchase
money, shall receive a deed from said collector, and have a
good title to the property sold. But if good cause, in the
opinion of the judge to whom the proceedings may be sub-
mitted, "for ratification of sale" be shown against the ratifica-
tion, the said sale shall be set aside. In which case the said
collector shall make a new sale of the property, and bring the
proceeds thereof into said court for distribution, and the pur-
chaser at the first sale shall be paid out of such proceeds, the
money paid by him on account of said sale, with interest. All
town taxes due and in arrear on the property sold, and all costs
incident to the sale, as above mentioned, in case of first sale,
and the costs of ratification proceedings, which shall be the
same as in the first sale, shall be paid out of such proceeds.
The residue to be paid to the owner of the property before the
first sale. No sale shall 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 exceptant to show the sale
invalid and the proceedings irregular.

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59 F. Any sale of real estate by a collector, where the
owners are described as the heirs of a named person, shall,
pass title as fully as if such heirs were each particularly named
in the proceedings by his own proper name.

Title to real.
estate

59 G. Whenever any real estate shall be sold by a collector,
the person who owned it prior to the sale, may redeem the
same by paying into the Circuit Court of Queen Anne's
county, at any time within twelve calender months from the
date of its sale, the amount of the purchase money, with
interest thereon, at the rate of fifteen per centum per annum,
which shall be paid to the purchaser.

Redemption
by prior
owner.

59 H. If the purchaser of any realty sold by a collector,
shall die without having received a deed therefor, the collector
may convey said realty to the devisees or heirs of such pur-
chaser; if any collectors shall die, remove or refuse to execute
a deed for realty sold by him, before said realty shall be con-
veyed by him, the court in which the sale was. reported, may,
after ratification of sale, appoint and direct some person to

Deeds to
purchasers.