1626 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 709

in the premises in detail, and showing to whom and at what
price such several parcels of land and articles of personal prop-
erty were respectively sold, the amount of tax, of interest ac-
crued, of proportional costs of advertising such sale, and the
costs and expenses of making and reporting said sale, and of
the surplus fund in each instance, with which report he shall
also file a copy of the printed list and notice aforesaid; the said
court shall examine the said proceedings, and if the same ap-
pear to be regular, and the provisions of law in relation there-
to have been substantially complied with, shall order notice to
be given by advertisement in such newspaper or newspapers
as the court may direct, warning all persons interested in the
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 shall not be ratified and confirmed, and in these
cases where no cause, or an insufficient cause be given against
such ratification, the court shall in one order ratify and con-
firm the sales so made, and the purchaser or purchasers there-
of shall, on payment of the purchase money and delivery of
a deed therefor as hereinafter provided for, have a good title
to the property sold, but if good cause be shown against such
ratification, in the judgment of the court, in relation to any
parcel of land sold, the said sale shall be set aside as to such
parcel, in which case the said tax collector shall, within thirty
days, proceed to a new sale of the property, in which case his
proceedings shall be in all particulars similar to those in the
original sale, and the purchaser thereunder shall acquire the
same right and title as purchasers under the original sale, and
bring the proceeds into court, out of which the purchaser shall
be repaid the purchase money paid by him to the tax collector
on said rejected sale and all taxes assessed on said real estate
and paid by the purchaser since said sale, with interest on all
such sums from time of payment; and if the purchaser has
not paid the purchase money on the subsequent taxes, said pro-
ceeds shall be applied to the payment of the taxes for which
said property may have been sold, and all subsequent taxes
thereon then in arrears, with interest on the same, according
to law; and no sale made under the provisions of this sub-title
shall 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.

103-F. Whenever any real estate shall be sold by the tax
collector, the owner thereof, prior to the sale, may redeem the
same by paying into court to be paid to the purchaser thereof