1404 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 680

98. 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 at 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 by
advertisement for two weeks in one newspaper published in
said town, 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 insufficient cause be given against
such ratification, the court shall in one order ratify and con-
firm all sales so made and then entitled to be ratified and con-
firmed, and the purchaser or purchasers thereof shall, in pay-
ment 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 there-
after, proceed to a new sale of the property by at least three
weeks' advertisement in one newspaper as aforesaid, and re-
port the same as hereinbefore provided, and bring the proceeds
thereof into court, out of which the purchaser shall be repaid
the money paid by him; to the said treasurer on the said re-
jected sale; and all taxes assessed on said property and paid
by the purchaser since said sale, and all costs and expenses
incurred in said court, and the costs and expenses of sales, with
interest on all such sums from the time of payment; and if the
purchaser has not paid the purchase money or the subsequent
taxes, such proceeds shall be applied to the payment of the
taxes for which said property may have been sold, including
all arrears, for former years, and all subsequent taxes then in
arrears, with interest on the same according to law, and the cost
of the proceedings; but such sale shall not be set aside if the
provisions of the law shall appear to be substantially complied
with, and the burden of proof shall be on the exceptant to show
the same to be invalid. And with reference to any sale or sales