EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1337

P. M., until every parcel of said property shall have been
offered and sold; should the treasurer deem it impracticable
to sell personal property liable for taxes at the time and place
aforesaid, then he may advertise and sell said personal prop-
erty at different dates and places as may seem most practicable
to him in each case; provided, that such sales shall be made as
soon as possible after the said first Monday in December; and.
for the purpose of selling personal property for the payment
of taxes, the said treasurer shall have, in addition to the power
conferred on him by this Act, all the powers possessed by col-
lectors for Harford County prior to the passage of the Act of
1898, Chapter 204.

33. The said treasurer shall, within thirty days after the
close of such sales, should any sale of real estate be made,
make a full report thereof to the Circuit Court for Harford
County, setting forth his proceedings in the premises in detail,
and showing to whom and what price the said parcels were
respectively sold, the amount of taxes, including arrears for
former years, interest accrued, the costs and expenses, and the
surplus fund in each instance; with each report he shall also
file a copy of the printed list and notice aforesaid. The said
court shall examine said proceedings, and if the same appear
to be regular and the provisions of the law in relation thereto
have been complied with, shall order notice to be given, to be
advertised for two weeks in one newspaper published in said
town, if there is one published there; but if not, then in some
newspaper published in Harford County, warning all persons
interested in the property sold as aforesaid 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 in those cases where no cause or sufficient
cause be given against such ratification, the court shall in one
order ratify and confirm all sales so made and then entitled
to be ratified and confirmed, and the purchaser or purchasers
thereof shall in payment of the purchase money have a. good
title to the property sold as aforesaid; but if in the judgment
of the court cause be shown against the ratification of the sale
of any property so sold, the said sale shall be set aside as to
such property, in which case the said treasurer shall, within
thirty days thereafter, proceed to a new sale of the property
by at least three weeks' advertisement in one newspaper as
aforesaid, and the report of the same as hereinbefore provided,
and bring the proceeds thereon into court, out of which the