582 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 293

ratified by the Court, the County Treasurer making such
sale shall by good and sufficient deed, to be executed and
acknowledged according to law, convey to the purchaser or
purchasers the parcels of land sold to them, respectively,
and the deed of the successor in office of the County Treas-
urer who made such sale shall be as good and valid in law
as though it had been executed and delivered by the last-
named County Treasurer.

202. In the event that any former or preceding County
Treasurer shall have failed, for any cause, to make a full
report or take any other proceedings that might be required
by law of any tax sale or sales made by him to the Circuit
Court for Queen Anne's County as provided for in Section
200 and Section 201 of this Article, then the present Treas-
urer or any succeeding Treasurer is hereby authorized, em-
powered and directed to make such report of said tax sale
or sales to the Circuit Court for Queen Anne's County and
take such other proceedings therein as by law may be
requisite which the Treasurer making said tax sale or sales
should have done and was by law empowered and required
so to do, and the said Circuit Court shall have such power
to ratify said tax sale or sales in the same manner as if said
sale or sales had been reported by the Treasurer making
the same, and upon the final ratification by the Circuit Court
for Queen Anne's County of said tax sale or sales the said
present Treasurer or any succeeding Treasurer is hereby
authorized, empowered and directed to execute and deliver
unto the said purchaser or purchasers at said tax sale or
sales made by such former or preceding Treasurer a deed
to said property so purchased and such deed shall be as
good and valid in law as though it had been executed by the
Treasurer making said tax sale or sales.

203. Whenever real estate shall be sold by the County
Treasurer, the owner thereof prior to the sale, his or her
heirs, may redeem the same by paying into Court, to be
paid the purchaser thereof, within the period of twelve
calendar months from the date of such sale, the amount of
the purchase money and all subsequent taxes paid by the
purchaser, with interest thereon at the rate of ten per
centum from the date of sale, and the date of such payment
of taxes, respectively.

204. The County Commissioners of Queen Anne's
County are hereby authorized and empowered, in their dis-
cretion, to purchase any property for sale for the payment