PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 549

of but one town lot, whether improved or not, it shall be
offered as a whole. If such property consists of a tract of
land not subdivided into town lots, then only such portion
thereof shall be sold (same to be determined before the sale
and described in the advertisements) as, in the judgment of the
Treasurer, shall be sufficient to pay the amount properly charge-
able against the delinquent owner.

18. The purchaser at a tax sale shall pay forthwith to
the Treasurer the amount of taxes, penalties and costs. The
Treasurer shall sign and deliver to the purchaser a certificate
of purchase designating the land sold and the amount paid there-
for and stating that unless the property shall be redeemed
within two years from the date of the sale, a deed will be given
by the Mayor of the town. Such certificates shall be assign-
able, and an assignment thereof shall vest in the assignee all
the right, title and interest of the original purchaser. The
holder of any certificate shall have the right to pay all taxes,
general or special, levied against the property after the date
of sale. The said Treasurer shall, within thirty days after the
close of the sales made and herein provided for, make a full
report of the sales made by him to the Circuit Court of Mont-
gomery County, setting forth his proceedings in the premises
in detail, and showing to whom, and at what price such several
parcels were severally sold, the amount of tax, the interest
accrued, proportional cost of advertising such sale, and the
cost and expenses of making and reporting said sales, including
a reasonable counsel fee, and of the surplus fund in each
instance; with such report he shall also file a copy of the printed
and posted list 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 to have been substantially
complied with, shall order notice to be given by advertisement
in such newspaper or newspapers as the court shall 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 or sales
should not be ratified and confirmed; and in those cases where
no cause, or an insufficient cause, be shown against such ratifi-
cation, the court shall, in one 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 good cause, in the judgment of the court,
be shown in the premises in relation to any parcel of said land