734 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 10. The passage of this Act shall in no ' way in-
terfere with the rights and duties of collectors of taxes
appointed under the law in existence previous to the
passage of chapter 199 of the Acts of 1904 and the
provisions of article 81 of the Code of Public- Gen-
eral Laws of Maryland, title "Revenue and Taxes," and all
amendments to the same relating to the duties, compensation or
remedies of collectors or proceedings entered against them or
their bonds, except to the extent that it may be repealed by
chapter 199 of the Acts of 1904, and chapter 760 of the Acts of
1906, and this Act shall continue in full force and be applicable,
as far as practicable, to the office of Treasurer hereby created;
provided, however, that all sales made by the Treasurer as here-
inbefore provided, on any one day or series of days shall be
reported to the Circuit Court for ratification at one time and in
one paper, to be docketed by the court as in. one case, after
which there shall be published, in the same newspapers that
published the tax sales, an order nisi, setting forth in sub-
stance that unless any of the persons whose lands were sold
(giving the name of delinquents without any description of
property) shall show cause to the contrary within the time
named therein (not less than twenty nor more than thirty days
from the date of the first publication), the sale shall be ratified
and confirmed; and said order shall be published by at least
three weekly insertions in said newspapers; the cost thereof, to
each newspaper publishing the same, shall be twenty-five cents
per name; and at the end of that time, if no cause shall be
shown, the sale shall be ratified and confirmed by the court, an
appeal to be allowed, however, to the exceptant, to the Court of
Appeals of this State within thirty days from the time of the
decision of the Circuit Court. The reports of said sales shall be
amendable in the discretion of the court to confirm to the facts
in any matter set forth therein, and no sale shall be set aside if
the requirements of the law shall be substantially complied
with, nor for any matter of mere form, when such sale shall be
finally' ratified, the purchaser shall, upon payment of the pur-
chase 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 ratification
of the sale, subject to appeal as aforesaid, shall be conclusive
as to the regularity of the sale, except in a court of equity upon
the ground of fraud or collusion or other usual equitable
ground setting aside sales in a court of equity. And it shall be
the duty of the clerk of the County Commissioners, the clerk
of the Circuit Court, and all other officers or other persons, to
perform all the duties upon their part required by law prior