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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 127.

with the accrued interest, cost and expenses thereon, the city
treasurer will proceed, at ten o'clock A. M. on that day, at the
city hall in said city, to offer each and every of said parcels of
land, premises or other property for sale to the highest bidder
for cash, which said list and notice shall be published in two
newspapers, if so many be printed in eaid city, for four suc-
cessive weeks prior to the first Monday in April, and on the

Property to
be sold for
taxes

said second Monday in April the said treasurer shall proceed
to sell any and all such pieces or parcels of land and premises
and personal property upon which said taxes, interest, costs
and expenses shall not then have been paid, and shall continue
such sale each day, Sundays and legal holidays excepted, from
ten o'clock A. M. until three o'clock P. M., until every parcel
and all of such property shall have been offered. Should it
for any reason appear to said treasurer to be impracticable to
sell personal property liable for taxes as aforesaid 'at the time
and place aforesaid, then said treasurer may advertise, offer
and sell such personal property at different dates and places
as may seem to him most practicable in each case, but always
advertising such sales as aforesaid, and holding the same as
soon as practicable after the said second Monday in April.
156. The said city treasurer shall within thirty days after
the close of such sale or offering, should any sale or sales be

Report of
sales
to he made
to the
Circuit Court

made, make a full report thereof to the Circuit Court for
Harford County, setting forth his proceedings in the premises
in detail, and showing to whom and at what price such several
' parcels were respectively sold, the amount of tax thereon and
interest accrued, the pro rata cost of advertising such sale,
the treasurer's fees and the surplus fund in each instance,
with which report he shall also file a copy of the printed list
and notice aforesaid. The said Court shall examine the said
proceedings, and if the same appear to be regular, and the
provisions of the law in relation thereto have been complied
with, shall order notice to be given by advertisement in two
newspapers, if so many be published in said city, 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 there be, why said sale shall not be ratified and
confirmed, and in those cases where no cause or an insufficient
cause be given against such ratification, the Court may in one
order ratify and confirm all sales so made and entitled to be
ratified and confirmed, and the purchaser or purchasers thereof
shall, on payment of the purchase money, have a good title to
the property sold ; but if in the judgment of the Court good
cause be shown against the ratification of the sale of any
parcel of land or other property so sold, and the said sale
shall be set aside as to such parcel or property, in which case