EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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same appear to be regular and the provisions of law in
relation thereto have been substantially complied with, shall
order notice to be given by advertisement in such newspaper
or newspapers as the court may direct, 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 they have, why said sale or sales should not
be ratified and confirmed; and in those cases where no cause
or an insufficient cause be shown against such ratification
the court shall, in One order, ratify and confirm the sale or
sales so made, and the purchaser or purchasers shall, on
payment of the purchase money, have a good title to the
property sold; but if good cause, in the judgment of the

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court, be shown in the premises in relation to any parcel of
said land, the said sale shall be set aside as to the said
parcel, in which case the clerk of said town shall, within
thirty (30) days, proceed to a new sale of the property and
bring the proceeds into court, out of which the purchaser
shall be paid the purchase money paid by him to the clerk
on the said sale rejected, and all taxes assessed on said
real estate and paid by the purchaser subsequent to said
sale and cost and expenses properly incurred in said
court, with interest on such sums from the time of payment,
and all sums expended by such purchaser for the necessary
insurance, repair and preservation of the property so sold ;
and if the purchaser has not paid the purchase money or the
subsequent taxes, said payment shall be applied to the pay-
ment of the taxes for which said property may have been
sold, and all taxes thereon then in arrears, with interest
thereon according to law, and the cost of proceedings; but
such sale shall not be set aside if the provisions of law
appear to have been substantially complied with, and the
burden of proof shall be on the exceptant to show the same
to be invalid.

Section 17 (D). That whenever real estate shall be sold by

Sale set aside.

the clerk of said town, the owner thereof may redeem the
same by paying to the clerk to be paid to the purchaser
thereof at any time within the period of two years from the
date of said sale, the amount of the purchase money and all
subsequent taxes paid by the purchaser, with interest
thereon at the rate of ten per cent, per annum, from the date
of sale and the date of payment of such taxes, respectively,

Redemption of
real estate.