1596 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 115-A. Whenever personal property assessed to any per-
son, set of persons or body corporate of Dorchester County is
about to be sold or removed from said County by said person,
set of persons, or body corporate or their agent, executor, ad-
ministrator, trustees or assigns, the treasurer may at any time
after the levy of taxes for any year shall have been made by
the County Commissioners, make out a bill for such taxes in the
usual form, with an order at the bottom of said bill directing
the sheriff or any constable of said County to levy upon the per-
sonal property about to be sold or removed from said County,
and enforce the payment of the taxes on the same in the manner
as provided in Section 115 of this Act; and for the purpose of
this Section all taxes on personal property about to be sold or
removed from said Dorchester County shall be taken to be due
and in arrear from the date of the levy of said taxes.

SEC. 115-B. When any real estate shall be sold for the payment
of taxes in arrear, it shall be the duty of the treasurer to report
the said sale under oath, together with all the proceedings had
in relation thereto to the Circuit Court for Dorchester County.
The 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, it shall order
notice to be given by advertisement, published in such news-
paper or newspapers as the court shall direct, warning all per-
sons interested in the property sold to be and appear by a cer-
tain day in the said notice to be named to show cause, if any
they have, why said sale shall not be ratified and confirmed;
and if no cause or an insufficient cause be shown against said
ratification, the said sale shall, by order of said court, be rati-
fied and confirmed, and the purchaser shall, on payment of the
purchase money, have a good title to the property sold; but if
good cause, in the judgment of said court, be shown in the
premises, the said sale shall be set aside, in which case the said
treasurer shall proceed to a new sale of the property, and shall
bring the proceeds into court, out of which the purchaser shall
be repaid the purchase money by him to the said treasurer paid
on said rejected sale, and all taxes assessed on said real estate
and paid by the purchaser after said sale and all costs and ex-
penses properly incurred under said sale and in said court,
with interest on all such sums from the time of payment; and
if the purchaser has not paid the purchase money or costs or
any subsequent taxes, said proceeds shall be applied to the pay-
ment of taxes for which said property may have been sold, and