706 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

said town, to offer said property for sale to the highest bidder
for cash, which list and notice shall be published at least three
weeks prior to the said third Tuesday in November; and upon
the said third Tuesday in November, in each year, the Town
Clerk shall proceed to sell under the terms of said notice all
property upon which taxes, interest, costs or fees are in arrears
and shall continue such sale from day to day on each secular
day, legal holidays excepted, from 10 o'clock A. M. to 3 o'clock
P. M., until all of said property shall have been offered and dis-
posed of.

59-C. The said Town Clerk shall within thirty days after
the close of such sales make a full report thereof to the Circuit
Court for Queen Anne's County, setting forth his proceedings
in the premises in detail, and showing to whom, and at what
price said several parcels were respectively sold, the amount of
tax and interest accrued, the pro rata cost of advertising such
sale, the Town Clerk's fees, and all other expenses and the sur-
plus fund in each instance, with which report he shall also file
a copy of the printed list and notice of sale. The said Court
shall examine the said proceedings, and if the said proceedings
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, 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 should not be ratified and confirmed; and after
hearing the objections, if any, the court in its discretion shall
in one order ratify and confirm all sales so made and then en-
titled to be ratified and confirmed, and the purchaser or pur-
chasers thereof 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 against the ratification of the sale
of any parcel of land or other property so sold, the said sale
shall be set aside as to such parcel or property, in which case
the said Town Clerk shall within thirty days thereafter pro-
ceed to a new sale of said property and bring the proceeds into
Court, out of which shall be paid the purchase money paid to
the Town Clerk on said rejected sale, and all taxes assessed on
said property since said sale, and all costs and expenses properly
incurred in said Court, with interest on all such sums from the
time of payment, but such sale shall not be set aside if the pro-
visions of 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; and for the purpose of making a just