1138 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 451-H. That the Treasurer, shall, within thirty days
after the close of such sale, make a full report thereof to the
Circuit Court for Frederick County, setting forth his proceed-
ings in the premises in detail, and showing to whom and at what
price such several parcels of land and articles of personal prop-
erty were respectively sold, the amount of tax, of interest ac-
crued, of proportional costs of advertising such sale, and the
costs and expenses of making and reporting said sale, and of
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 provisions of law in relation
thereto have been substantially complied with, shall order notice
to be given by advertisement in such newspaper or newspapers
as the court may direct, 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 confirmed, and in these cases
where no cause, or an insufficient cause be given against such
ratification, the court shall in one order ratify and confirm the
sales so made, and the purchaser or purchasers thereof shall, on
payment of the purchase money and the delivery of a deed
therefor as hereinafter provided for, have a good title to the
property sold, but if good cause be shown against such ratifica-
tion, in the judgment of the court, in relation to any parcel of
land sold, the said sale shall be set aside as to such parcel, in
which case the said Treasurer shall, within thirty days, pro-
ceed to a new sale of the property, in which case his proceed-
ings shall be in all particulars similar to those in the original
sale, and the purchaser thereunder shall acquire the same right
and title as purchasers under the original sale, 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 re-
jected sale, and all taxes assessed on said real estate and paid
by the purchaser since said sale, with interest on all such sums
from time of payment; and if the purchaser has not paid the
purchase money on the subsequent 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 ar-
rears, with interest on the same, according to law; and no sale
made under the provisions "of this Act shall be set aside if the
provisions of the law shall appear to have been substantially
complied with, and the burden of proof shall be on the exceptant
to show the same to be invalid.