ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 877

newspaper or newspapers as the Court shall direct, 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 ratified and con-
firmed; and, if no cause or an insufficient cause be shown
against said ratification, the said sale shall, by order of said
Court, be ratified and confirmed, and the purchaser shall, on
payment of the balance of the purchase money, have a good
title to the property sold; and the Clerk and President of the
Board of Commissioners shall execute an appropriate deed for
such property and all right, title and interest of all persons in
said property shall pass to the grantee in such deed, 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 Clerk shall proceed to a new sale of the property, and
shall bring the proceeds into Court, out of which the purchaser
shall be repaid the purchase money paid by the purchaser to
the Clerk on said rejected sale, and all taxes assessed on said
property paid by the purchaser after said sale and all costs
and expenses properly incurred under said sale and in said
Court, with interest on all such sums from the time of pay-
ment; and if the purchaser has not paid the purchase money
or costs or any subsequent taxes, said proceeds shall be ap-
plied to the payment of taxes for which said property may
have been sold, and all subsequent taxes due thereon and in
arrear, with interest on the same according to law, and also
the costs of the proceedings; but said sale shall not be set aside
if the provisions of the law shall appear to have been substan-
tially complied with, and the burden of proof shall be on the
exceptant to show the same to be invalid; and when any sale
shall have been finally ratified by the Court, as herein pro-
vided, the order of ratification shall be conclusive as to the
regularity of the Clerk's proceedings therein and of said sale,
and shall not be open to inquiry except in case of fraud or col-
lusion in said proceedings and sale on the part of or between
the Clerk and the purchaser.

The Commissioners of Vienna are hereby authorized and
empowered, in their discretion, to purchase any property of-
fered for sale for the payment of taxes, provided they shall
not bid a sum greater approximately than the taxes in arrears
upon said property and the interest and expenses of sale and
all costs of reporting such sale, and to sell and convey or lease
the same, as in their judgment and discretion shall be deemed
best for the interest of the town of Vienna.