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CHAP. 817
Bights and
duties of
collectors not
affected.
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Section 9. And be it enacted, That the passage of this
Act shall in no way interfere with the rights and duties of
collectors appointed or to be appointed in accordance with
the law in existence at the time of the passage of this Act
until and during the year 1905, and that all provisions of
Article 81 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland,
entitled "Revenue and Taxes," and all amendments to the
same relating to the duties, compensation or remedies of col-
lection, or proceedings or remedies against them or their
bonds, except to the extent that they may be repealed or
modified by this Act, shall continue in full force and be appli-
cable to the office of treasurer hereby created ; provided,
further, that all orders of the Circuit Court ratifying and
confirming or setting aside sales of land for taxes shall
be subject to appeal to the Court of Appeals of this
State within thirty days after decision thereof by the
Circuit Court; that the report of said sales shall be
amendable in the discretion of the court to conform to the
facts in any matters required to be set forth therein ; nor
shall any sale be set aside when the requirements of law
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Good title
given.
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have been substantially complied with ; that when any sale
shall have been finally ratified the purchaser shall upon
payment of the purchase money have a good title to the
property sold, and if the said ratification shall be made by
the court after exceptions filed by any one interested in the
property sold the order of ratification of the sale subject to
appeal as aforesaid shall be conclusive as to the regularity
of the sale and of the title under such sale, except in a
court of equity, upon the ground of fraud or collusion or
other usual suitable grounds for setting aside sales in a
court of equity ; and it shall be the duty of the clerk to the
county, the clerk of the Circuit Court and all other officers
or persons to perform all the duties upon their part required
by existing law to be performed in relation to or in aid of
the duties of the office of treasurer as are now required by
them in respect to the office of State and a county collector
of taxes in said county.
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New section
added.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That a new section be added
to the aforesaid Chapter 199 of the Acts of the General
Assembly of Maryland for the Session of 1904, entitled as
aforesaid, to be numbered as Section 10, and to read as
follows :
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