398 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 200

said town named in said advertisement commencing at ten
o'clock A. M. and shall continue thereafter from day to day
until all of said property shall have been sold, and the amount
of purchase money paid for any property at such sale or sales
shall bear interest at the rate of twelve per cent per annum,
from the day of sale and until the same be paid, or the prop-
erty, deeded, as hereinafter provided.

In all cases where lands held in fee simple or by lease have
been sold, or shall be sold for the payment of taxes in arrears,
it shall be the duty of the Town Clerk and Treasurer to report
the sale, together with all the proceedings had in relation there-
to to the Circuit Court for Prince George's County within
thirty days thereafter. The said Court shall examine the pro-
ceedings, and if the same appear to be regular, and the pro-
visions of law in relation thereto have been complied with,
shall order notice to be given by advertisement published in
such newspaper or newspapers as the Court shall direct, warn-
ing all persons interested in the property sold to be and appear
by certain day in the said notice to be named, to show cause,
if any they have, why said sale should not be ratified and
confirmed; and if no cause or an insufficient cause be shown
against the ratification, the said sale shall, by order of said
Court, be ratified and confirmed, and the purchaser shall, on
payment of the purchase money, have a good title to the said
property so sold; but if good cause in the judgment of said
Court, be shown in the premises, the said sale shall be set
aside, in which case the said Town Clerk and Treasurer shall
proceed to a new sale of the said property and bring the pro-
ceeds into Court, out of which the purchaser shall be paid the
purchase money paid by him to the Town Clerk and Treasurer
on said rejected sale, and all taxes assessed on said real estate
or leasehold estate and paid by said purchaser since said sales
and all costs and expenses properly incurred in said Court,
with interest on all sums from the time of payment at the rate
of twelve per cent, per annum; and if the purchaser has not
paid the purchase money or the subsequent taxes, the Town
Clerk and Treasurer shall apply such proceeds to the payment
of the taxes for which said property may nave been sold, and
all subsequent taxes then in arrears with interest on the same
according to Jaw and the costs of proceedings; but such sales
shall not be set aside if the provisions of the 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
under the law. The Town Clerk and Treasurer shall require