942 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and reporting said sales, including a reasonable counsel fee,
and of the surplus fund in each instance; and with such re-
port he shall also file a copy of the printed and advertised list
aforesaid. The said Court shall examine the said proceedings,
and if the same appear to be regular and the provisions of the
law in relation thereto Have been substantially complied with,
shall order notice to be given by advertisement in such news-
paper or newspapers as the Court may direct, warning all per-
sons 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 or sales should not be ratified
and confirmed, and in those cases where no cause, or an insuffi-
cient cause, be shown against such ratification, the Court shall,
in an order, ratify and confirm the sale or sales so made, and
the purchaser or purchasers 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 in the premises in
relation to any parcel of said land, the said sale shall be set
aside as to the said parcel, in which case the clerk of said town
shall within thirty days proceed to a new sale of the property
and bring the proceeds into Court, out of which the purchaser
shall be paid the purchase money paid by him to the clerk on
the said sale rejected, and all taxes assessed on said real estate
and paid by the purchaser subsequent to said sale, and cost and
expense properly incurred in said Court, with interest on such
sums from the time of payment, and all sums expended by
such purchaser for the necessary insurance, repair and preser-
vation of the property so sold, and if the purchaser has not
paid the purchase money or the subsequent taxes, said payment
shall be applied to the payment of the taxes for which said
property may have been sold, and all taxes thereon then in
arrears, with interest thereon according to law and the cost of
proceedings; but such sale shall not be set aside if the provi-
sions of the law appear to have been substantially complied
with, and the burden of proof shall be on the exceptant to
show the same to be invalid. That whenever real estate shall
be sold by the clerk of said town the owner thereof may redeem
the same by paying to the clerk, to be paid to the purchaser.
thereof, at any time within the period of two years from the
date of said sale, the amount of the purchase money and all
subsequent taxes paid by the purchaser, with interest thereon
at the rate of ten per centum per annum from the date of sale
and the date of payment of such taxes, respectively, and such
sum as shall have been expended in the insurance and neces-
sary repairs and care of said property by the purchaser, if any
has been made. That after the expiration of two years from
the date of such sale, provided the same shall have been rati-