ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 481

in the advertisement, as in the judgment of the Treasurer,
shall be sufficient to pay the amount properly chargeable
against the delinquent owner, shall be sold.

(F) The town of Takoma Park is hereby authorized and
empowered to purchase any property offered for sale for the
payment of taxes, provided it shall not bid a sum greater than
the taxes in arrears upon said property and the interest and
expenses of sale and costs and fees. In such case no certificate
of sale shall be made but if at any time thereafter any person
shall pay to the town the amount of taxes, penalties and costs
to date together with all taxes, general or special, which may
have become due thereon after the date of the sale, with
interest at fifteen (15) per centum per annum, the Treasurer
shall give to such person a certificate similar to the certificate
given to a purchaser at the tax sale, which shall entitle him
to the same rights and privileges as if he had purchased the
property at the tax sale.

(G) The said Treasurer shall, within thirty (30) days after
the close of the sales made, and herein provided for make a
full report to the Circuit Courts of Montgomery and Prince
George's Counties, of the sale made by him of the property
located in each respective county setting forth his proceedings
in the premises in detail, and showing to whom and at what
price such several parcels were severally sold, the amount of
tax, the interest accrued, proportional cost of advertising such
sales, and the cost and expenses of making and reporting
said sales, including a reasonable counsel fee, and of the sur-
plus fund in each instance; with such report he shall also
file a copy of the printed and posted list aforesaid. The said
courts shall examine the said proceedings and if the same
appear to be regular and the provisions of law in relation
thereto 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 inter-
ested 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 or sales should not be ratified
and confirmed; and in those cases where no cause, or an
insufficient cause, be shown against such ratification, the court
shall, in one order, ratify and confirm the sale or sales so
made, and the purchaser or purchasers shall, on payment of
the purchase money, have a good title to the property sold,

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