3472 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 680

detail, and showing to whom and at what price such several
parcels were respectively sold, the amount of tax thereon and
interest accrued, and pro rata cost of advertising such sale,
the Treasurer's fees and the surplus fund in each instance,
with which report he shall also file a copy of the printed list
and notice aforesaid. The said Court shall examine the said
proceedings, and if the same appear to be regular, and the pro-
visions of the law in relation thereto have been complied with,
shall order notice to be given by advertisement in two news-
papers if so many be published in said City, warning all per-
sons 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 there be, why said sale. shall not be ratified and
confirmed; and in those cases where no cause, or an insufficient
cause to be given against such ratification, the Court may in
one order ratify and confirm all sales so made and entitled to he
ratified and confirmed, and the purchaser or purchasers there-
of 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 otter property so sold, and the said sale shall be
set aside as to such parcel or property, in which case the said
Treasurer shall within thirty days proceed to a new sale of
the said property and bring the proceeds into Court, out of
which the purchaser shall be repaid the purchase money paid
by him to the Treasurer on said rejected sale, and all taxes
assessed on said property and paid by the purchaser since said
sale, and all costs and expenses properly incurred 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 the sub-
sequent taxes, said proceeds shall be applied to the payment of
the taxes for which said property may have been sold, and all
subsequent taxes thereon then in arrear, with interest on the
same according to law, and the cost of proceedings, but such
sale shall not be set aside if the provisions of the law shall
appear to have been substantially complied with, and the bur-
den of proof shall be on the exceptant to show the same to be
invalid and with reference to any sale or sales not ratified and
confirmed by the said order, and for the purpose of making a
just distribution of the proceeds of any sale ratified and con-
firmed, the said Court may pass all such other or subse-
quent orders as may be just and equitable, and shall have as
full and complete jurisdiction as though it were sitting as a
Court of Equity, to pass all such orders as shall seem just and