296 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

lot or parcel of ground to be redeemed, and a further sum
of one-half per cent, per month interest from the time of sale
to the time of such tender; and the sums so paid shall be by
the City Collector delivered or tendered to the purchaser,
whose right in the property so purchased shall thenceforth
cease and determine.

48. In all cases where lands held in fee simple or by lease
have been sold, or shall be sold for payment of taxes in arrears,
according to the provisions of existing laws, it shall be the duty
of the City Collector to report the said sale, together with
all the proceedings had in relation thereto to the Circuit Court
of said City. The court to which such report shall be made
shall examine the said proceedings, and if the same appear to
be regular, and the provisions of law in relation thereto have
been complied with, shall order notice to be given by advertise-
ment published in such newspapers as the court shall direct,
warning all persons interested in the property sold to be and
appear by a certain day in the said notice to be named, to show
cause, if any they have, why said sale should not be ratified and
confirmed; and if no cause or an insufficient cause be shown
against the said ratification, the said sale shall, by order of said
court, be ratified and confirmed, and the purchaser shall, on
payment of the purchase money, have a good title to the prop-
erty sold; but if good cause, in the judgment of the said court,
be shown in the premises, the said sale shall be set aside; in
which case the said City Collector shall proceed to a new sale
of the property and bring the proceeds into court, out of which
the purchaser shall be repaid the purchase money paid by him
to the City Collector on said rejected sale, and all taxes assessed
on said real estate and paid by said purchaser since said sale,
and all costs and expenses properly incurred in the said court,
with interest on all such sums from the time of payment; and if
the purchaser has not paid the purchase money or the subse-
quent taxes, to apply said proceeds to the payment of the taxes
for which said real property may have been sold, and all subse-
quent taxes thereon then in arrears, with interest on the same,
according to law, and the costs of the proceedings; but such
sale shall not be set aside if the provisions of the law shall ap-
pear to have been substantially complied with; and the burden