PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1161

Treasurer and Collector a bond or obligation, with approved
securities, to pay the balance of such purchase money on the
ratification of the sale.

At any time before the ratification of the sale of real or lease-
hold property, the person charged with the taxes under which
sale was made, or any person in his behalf, may pay to the
purchaser, his heirs or assigns, the amount paid to the Clerk,
Treasurer and Collector for taxes, interest, costs and expenses
as aforesaid, with interest thereon from the day of sale, at the
rate of fifteen per cent., and such payment, or the tender
thereof, shall render the sale null and void, and such payment
shall be an absolute bar to the ratification of the sale; upon
payment as aforesaid, the purchaser, or his executors, adminis-
trators or assigns, shall execute a deed or release; which shall
be recorded as a deed of real estate.

Twelve months after the date of sale, or as soon thereafter
as may be reasonably convenient, the Clerk, Treasurer and
Collector and the purchaser shall report the sale to the Circuit
Court for said County, sitting in equity, and in said report the
names of all persons interested in, the property shall be men-
tioned, and they shall be made parties, as would be done in the
case of a creditor's bill. Persons holding judgment, mortgage
or other liens on the real or leasehold property sold, shall be
entitled to be made parties thereto, and notice shall be given to
them by subpoenas or order of publication, as in other equity
cases, and the case shall in due time be heard, unless the taxes,
interest, costs and expenses of the entire case are paid within
a time named by the Court, the sale shall be confirmed and shall
pass absolute title in fee to the purchaser, his heirs or assigns,
provided, the balance of the purchase money shall be paid into
Court within ten days after the time allowed to the persons in-
terested in the property to pay the taxes, interest, costs and ex-
penses have expired. As soon as the balance of the purchase
money is paid into Court, the Court shall order the Clerk,
Treasurer and Collector to convey the property in fee simple
to the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, absolutely, and all right,
title and interest of all the parties shall pass to the grantee in
said deed. No sale shall be set aside, unless the taxes and in-
terest thereon shall be paid.

75 (16). All persons who keep and use any vehicle for the
transporation in the city of goods, merchandise or other per-
sonal chattels and effects, for hire, or for which compensation is
charged.