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decree a trustee or trustees for making such sale, and shall
require bond and security for the performance of the trust as is
usual in cases of sales of mortgaged premises.

721. The trustee or trustees so appointed, after having
given bond with security, may, after the arrival of the period
limited by the decree for a sale, sell, agreeably to the terms of
said decree, the mortgaged property or any part thereof; the
mortgagees, their executors, administrators or assigns, if the
mortgage claim shall have been assigned before such sale, or
their duly constituted agent or attorney, after the arrival of the
period aforesaid, verifying by their oath a statement of the
amount of said mortgage claim remaining due, before the Judge
of said court or before any Justice of the Peace of this State,
the official character of any Justice of the Peace for any county
being certified under his official seal by the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for the county where the affidavit is made, where the
affidavit is made outside of the City of Baltimore, or before any
person outside of this State authorized to take acknowledg-
ments of deeds; and such statement shall be filed in said court.

722. Such sales and the conveyances thereupon shall have
the same effect, if finally ratified by said court, as if the same
had been made under decrees between the proper parties in
relation to the mortgages, and in the usual course of said court.

723. The trustee or trustees shall report' the sales to the
court for its consideration and ratification or rejection; and
such orders shall pass therein touching such ratification as are
usual on sales of mortgaged property in said court.

724. Any allegations may be made, and proof under the
orders of the said court exhibited, and a trial of the allegations
had as the court shall prescribe, to show that the sales ought
not to have been made.

725. The said court, upon being satisfied of the truth of
said allegations, shall reject and set aside the sale, and in such