HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 581

secular day, legal holidays excepted, from 10 o'clock A. M.
to 3 o'clock P. M., until all of said property shall have been
offered and disposed of.

200. The said County Treasurer shall within thirty days
after the close of such sales make a full report thereof to
the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County, setting forth
his proceedings in the premises in detail, and showing to
whom and at what price said several parcels were respec-
tively sold, the amount of tax and interest accrued, the pro
rata of cost of advertising such sale, the County Treasurer's
fees, and all other expenses and the surplus fund in each
instance, with which report he shall file a copy of the
printed list and notice of sale. The said Court shall examine
the said proceedings, and, if the said proceedings 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, 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 should not be ratified and confirmed; and
after hearing the objections, if any, the Court in its discre-
tion shall in one order ratify and confirm all sales so made
and then entitled to be ratified and confirmed, and the pur-
chaser or purchasers thereof shall, on payment of the pur-
chase money, have a good title to the property sold, but if, in
the judgment of the Court, good cause be shown against the
ratification of the sale of any parcel of land or other prop-
erty so sold, the said sale shall be set aside as to such par-
cel or property, in which case the said County Treasurer
shall within thirty days proceed to a new sale of said prop-
erty and bring the proceeds into Court, out of which shall
be paid the purchase money paid to the County Treasurer
on said rejected sale, and all taxes assessed on said property
since said sale, and all costs and expenses properly incurred
in said Court, with interest on all such sums from the time
of payment, but such sale shall not be set aside if the pro-
visions of law shall appear to have been substantially com-
plied with, and the burden of proof shall be on the exceptant
to show the same to be invalid; and for the purpose of
making a just distribution of the proceeds of any sale rati-
fied and confirmed the said Court may pass all such other
or subsequent orders as may be just and equitable, and shall
have as full and complete jurisdiction as though it were
sitting as a Court of Equity.

201. After the expiration of six calendar months from
the date of such sale, provided the same has been finally