1520 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 680

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
entitled to be ratified and confirmed, and the purchaser or
purchasers 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 treasurer shall within thirty days pro-
ceed to a new sale of said property and bring the proceeds into
Court, out of which shall be repaid the purchase money paid
to the treasurer 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 provisions of law shall appear to have been substantially
complied with, and the burden of proof shall be on the ex-
ceptant to show the same to be invalid; and for the purpose of
making a just distribution of the proceeds of any sale ratified
and confirmed, the said Court may pass all such other or sub-
sequent 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.

479. After the expiration of twelve calendar months from
the date of such sale, provided the same has been finally ratified
by the Court, the treasurer then in office shall by good and suf-
ficient deed duly executed and acknowledged according to law,
convey to the purchaser or purchasers the parcels of land sold
to them respectively, and the deed of the successor in office of
the treasurer who made such sale shall be as good and valid
in law as though it had been executed and delivered by the
said last-named treasurer.

480. Whenever real estate shall be sold by the treasurer the
owner thereof prior to the sale, his or her heirs, may redeem
the same by paying into Court to be paid to the purchaser
thereof, within the period of twenty-four calendar months from
the date of such sale, the amount of the purchase money and
all subsequent taxes paid by the purchaser, with interest there-
on at the rate of ten per centum from the date of sale, and the
date of such payment of taxes, respectively.