ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1009

and the amount of taxes due with interest and costs, and also
a description of the property sufficient to identify the same,
which said sale shall be held at some public place in 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 in-
terest at the rate of twelve per cent, per annum, from the day
of sale and until the same be paid, or the property 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 Treasurer of the Berwyn Citizens' Com-
mittee to report the sale, together with all the proceedings had
in relation thereto to the Circuit Court for Prince George's
County within thirty days thereafter. The said Court shall
examine the proceedings, and if the same appear to be regular,
and the provisions 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,
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* 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 Treasurer of the Berwyn Citizens' Com-
mittee shall proceed to a new sale of the said property and bring
the proceeds into Court, out of which the purchaser shall be
paid the purchase money paid by him to the Treasurer of the
Berwyn Citizens' Committee 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 Treasurer of the Berwyn Citizens' Committee shall
apply such proceeds to the payment of the taxes for which said
property may have been sold, and all subsequent taxes then in
arrears with interest on the same according to law and the costs