ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1165

CHAPTER 476.

AN ACT authorizing the Police Commissioner of Baltimore
City, State of Maryland, to pay a pension to Mary McKew,
the widow of Michael McKew, deceased, a former member
of the Police Department of Baltimore City, State of Mary-
land.

(Vetoed. }

CHAPTER 477.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 55 of
Article 81 of the Annotated Code of Public General Laws
of Maryland, entitled "Revenue and Taxes, " sub-titled
"Sales by Collectors. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 55 of Article 81 of the Annotated Code of
the Public General Laws of Maryland, entitled "Revenue and
Taxes, " sub-titled "Sales by Collectors, " be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, so as to
read as follows:

55. In all cases where lands held in fee simple or by lease
have been sold according to law or shall be sold for payment of
taxes in arrear, it shall be the duty of the collector of taxes
to report the said sale, together with all proceedings had in
relation thereto, to the Circuit Court for the county where said
lands are situate or where said lands are situate in the City of
Baltimore to the Circuit Court or Circuit Court No. 2 of said
City; the court to which said report shall be made shall examine
the said proceedings, and if the same appear to be regular
and the provisions of law in relation thereto have been com-
plied with, shall order notice to be given by advertisement pub-
lished in such newspaper or newspapers as the court shall di-
rect, warning all persons interested in the property sold to be
and appear by a certain day, in the said notice to be named,
to show cause, if any they have, why said sale shall not be rati-
fied and confirmed: and if no cause or an insufficient cause he
shown against the said 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
property sold; but if good cause in the judgment of the said
court be shown in the premises, the said sale shall be set aside,
in which case the said collector shall proceed to a new sale of