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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

on the premises to be sold, or in front of the courthouse door
in said town, proceed to sell, by public auction, the property
levied on, for cash to the highest bidder. Out of the proceeds-
of such sale the paid collector shall pay all costs incident to
said sale, including auctioneer's fee, advertising, a commission
of ten per cent, to the party making the sale, all costs of pro-
ceedings to have sale ratified, and all taxes due from the delin-
quent, with interest; and shall pay any residue to the owner of
said property.

Real estate
may be
sold.

SEC. 59 E. The real estate of any delinquent taxpayer may
be sold to pay taxes levied for the purposes of said town,
whether the said delinquent owns personal property or not.

To report
sale.

SEC. 59 F. In all cases where the said collector shall sell real
estate for the payment of taxes in arrears, he shall report the
said sale, together with all proceedings had in relation thereto,
to the Circuit Court of Queen Anne's county; and if the
same appear to be regular, and the provisions of law relating
thereto have been complied with, the said court shall order
notice to be given by advertisement published in such newspaper
as the court shall direct, warning all persons interested in the
property sold, to be and appear in said court on 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
insufficient cause be shown against the ratification, the said sale,

Ratification
of sale.

by order of said court, shall be ratified and confirmed, and the
purchaser, upon the 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 judgment of the said

New sale.

court, be shown against ratification, 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,
out of which all money paid by the purchaser at the first sale
on account of said sale, including taxes levied on the property
sold after the sale, and all costs and expenses properly incurred
in all of the proceedings, and in said court, with interest from
date of payment, shall be paid. If the purchaser at the first
gale has not paid the purchase money and the taxes levied
after the sale, the purchase money of the new sale shall be
applied to pay all taxes then levied and unpaid on the prop-
erty sold, with interest and advertising and all other costs
incurred in relation to said sale, and in the proceedings in
court concerning the same. No sale shall be set aside if the
provisions of law shall appear to have been substantially com-