202                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                 [CH. 101

ment in some newspaper published in Kent County, once a
week for three successive weeks, and the clerk shall retain out
of the proceeds of such sale the amount of taxes due from such
delinquent with interest thereon, together with the costs in-
curred in making the sale, and pay the surplus, if any there
be, to the person entitled thereto. Whenever real estate is sold
as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the clerk to report said
sale, together with all proceedings had in relation thereto, with-
in thirty days, to the Circuit Court for Kent County, and the
said court shall take and exercise jurisdiction over said sale
and shall examine the proceedings, and if the same appear to
be regular and the provisions of the law in relation thereto
have been substantially complied with, shall order notice to be
given by advertisement published in some newspaper or news-
papers of general circulation printed in Kent County, as the
court shall direct, warning all persons interested in the prop-
erty sold to be and appear by a certain day in said notice to be
named to show cause, if any they have, why said sale shall not
be ratified and confirmed, and if no cause or an insufficient
cause be shown against the said ratification, then said sale shall
by order of said court be ratified and confirmed, and the pur-
chaser shall on payment of the purchase money have a good
title to the property sold.

122-1. Whenever real estate shall be sold by the clerk, the
owner thereof prior to the sale may redeem the same by pay-
ing into court, to be paid to the purchaser thereof within the
period of twelve calendar months from the date of such sale,
the amount of the purchase money with interest thereon at the
rate of ten per cent, per annum from the day of sale.

122J. If the purchaser of any real estate sold for taxes
hereunder shall die without having procured a deed from the
Clerk to the Mayor and Council of Chestertown, the said
clerk may convey the said real estate to the devisees or heirs
of the purchaser. And if lands shall be sold by the clerk for
taxes and the said clerk shall die, remove or refuse to make a
deed therefor, the court ratifying such sale may appoint a
special trustee to execute such deed upon application by the
said purchaser,, and may order said special trustee to execute
said deed. Whenever property in the town of Chestertown
has been sold for taxes pursuant to law by one clerk and such
sale has been reported and the deed executed by the successor
in office of the clerk who made the sale as aforesaid, such report