980 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 495

and the court shall examine the 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 in some newspaper published in
said county warning 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 shall not be
ratified and confirmed; and if no cause or an insufficient
cause be shown against the said ratification the said sale,
shall by order oi the said court, be ratified and confirmed,
and the purchaser shall, on payment of the purchase money,
have a good title to the property 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 said collector shall proceed
to make a new sale of the property and bring the proceeds into
court, out of which the purchaser shall be repaid the purchase
money paid by him to the collector on said rejected sale, and
all taxes assessed on said real estate and paid by the pur-
chaser since said sale, and all costs and expenses properly
incurred in said court, with interest on all sums from the time
of payment; but such sale shall not be set aside if the pro-
visions of the law shall appear to have been substantially
complied with, and the burden of proof be on the exceptants to
show the same to be invalid; whenever real estate shall be thus
sold for taxes by the collector, the owner thereof prior to
the sale may redeem the same by paying into court, to be paid
to the purchaser thereof within the period of twelve calendar
months from the day of such sales, the amount of the purchase
money with twenty-five per cent added thereto and all costs
which may be incurred by the collector or the purchaser in
reporting or ratifying said sale; and the purchaser of such
real estate, if the said sale be confirmed, shall receive a deed
therefor from the tax collector; and if the purchaser should
die before having received the deed the tax collector shall con-
vey the real estate to the devisees or heirs of the purchaser;
and if the tax collector should die, remove or refuse to make
a deed the court ratifying such sale may appoint a special
agent to execute a deed to the purchasers; whenever any per-
sonal property shall be removed from the town while any town
taxes levied thereon remain due, in arrears and unpaid, a
tax collector shall have power to pursue said property and
to collect said tax wherever the same may be found in the State,
as if the said property had remained in the said town.