746 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

199 of the Acts of 1904, and the provisions of Article 81 of
the Code of Public General 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it may be repealed by Chapter 199 of the Acts of 1904, and the
provisions of this Act, 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 hereinbefore provided, on any one
day or series of days, shall be reported to the Circuit Court for
Charles county 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 substance, 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 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 publish-
ing 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 conform to the facts in any matter
set ofrth therein, and no sale shall be set aside if the require-
ments of the law shall be substantially complied with, nor for
any matter of mere form; when such sale shall be finally rati-
fied, the purchasers shall, upon payment of the purchase money,
have a good title to the property sold, and if the said ratifica-
tion shall be made by the Court after exceptions filed by any
one interested in the property sold, the ratification of the sale,
subject to the 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 to
the enactment of this Act, and the Acts of which it is amenda-
tory, in relation to or in aid of the duties of the office of treas-
urer as were formerly required by them in respect to the office
of State and county collectors of taxes in said county. The