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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 34.

published in said town, for four successive weeks prior to
the said first Monday of December ; and on said first
Monday of December the said treasurer shall proceed to
sell any and all such pieces of property, real or personal,
upon which said taxes, interest and costs and expenses
shall not then have been paid, and shall continue such
sale each secular day, legal holidays excepted, from 10
o'clock A. M. until 3 o'clock P. M., until every parcel of said

Property to
be advertised
and sold.

property shall have been offered and sold. Should the said
treasurer deem it impracticable to sell personal property liable
for taxes at the time and place aforesaid, then he may adver-
tise and sell said personal property at different dates and places
as may seem most practicable to him in each case ; provided,
that such sales shall be made as soon as possible after the said
first Monday in December; and for the purpose of selling
personal property for the payment of taxes the said treasurer
shall have, in addition to the power conferred on him by this
Act, all the powers possessed by collectors of Harford county,
prior to the passage of the Act of 1S98, chapter 204.
Section 26 G. The said treasurer shall, within thirty days

Report to be
made.

after the close of such sales, should any sale of real estate be
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 the said
parcels were respectively sold, the amount of taxes, including
arrears for former years, interest accrued, the costs and
expenses, and the surplus fund in each instance, with each
report ; he shall also file a copy of the printed list and notice
aforesaid. The said Court shall examine 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

Notice to be
given
by advertise-
ment.

to be given by advertisement for two weeks in one newspaper
published in said town, warning all persons interested in the
property sold as aforesaid 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 in those cases where no cause or insufficient cause be
given against such ratification, the court shall in one order
ratify and confirm all sales so made and then entitled to be
ratified and confirmed, and the purchaser or purchasers
thereof shall, in payment of the purchase money, have a good
title to the property sold as aforesaid ; but if, in the judgment
of the court, cause be shown against the ratification of the sale
of any property so sold, the said sale shall be set aside as to

New sale
ordered.

such property, in which case the said treasurer shall, within
thirty days thereafter, proceed to a new sale of the property
by at least three weeks' advertisement in one newspaper as