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made, make a full report thereof to the Circuit Court for
Harford county, setting forth his proceedings in the
premises in detail, and showing to whom, and at what
price such several parcels were respectively sold, the
amount of tax and interest accrued, the pro rata cost
of advertising such sale, the treasurer's fees and the surplus
fund in each instance, with which report he shall also file a
copy of the printed list and notice aforesaid. The said court
shall examine the said proceedings, and if the same appear to
be regular, and the provision of law in relation thereto have
been complied with, shall order notice to be given by advertise-
ment in two newspapers as aforesaid, 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 shall not be ratified and con-
firmed ; and in those cases where no cause, or an insufficient
cause be given against such ratification, the court shall in one
order ratify and confirm all sales so made, and then entitled to
be ratified and confirmed, and the purchaser or purchasers there-
of shall, on payment of the purchase money, have a good title
to the property sold ; but if, in the judgment of the court,
good cause be shown against the ratification of the sale of any
parcel of land or other property so sold, the said sale shall be
set aside as to such parcel or property ; in which case the said
treasurer shall within thirty days proceed to a new sale of the
said property and bring the proceeds into court, out of which
the purchaser shall be repaid the purchase money paid by him
to the treasurer on said rejected sale ; and all taxes assessed on
said property and paid by the purchaser since said sale, and all
costs and expenses properly incurred in 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, said proceeds shall be applied to the payment of
the taxes for which said property may have been sold, and all
subsequent taxes thereon then in arrear, with interest on the
same according to law, and the cost of the proceedings, but
such sale shall not be set aside if the provisions of law shall
appear to have been substantially complied with and the burden
or proof shall be on the exceptaut to show the same to be
invalid, and with reference to any sale or sales not ratified and
confirmed by the said order, and for the purpose of making a
just distribution of the proceeds of any sale ratified and con-
firmed, the said court may pass all such other or subsequent
orders as may be just and equitable, and shall have as full and
complete jurisdiction as though it were sitting as a court of,
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