226                         LAWS OF MARYLAND.                 [CH. 106

quent owner, shall be sold. If the clerk and treasurer deems
it impracticable to sell personal property liable for taxes at
the time and place aforesaid, then he may advertise and sell
said personal property at different dates and places as may
seem most practicable to him in each case.

431. The said clerk and treasurer shall within thirty days
after the close of such sales make a full report thereof to the
Circuit Court for Montgomery County setting forth his pro-
ceedings in the premises in detail arid showing to whom and for
what price the said parcels were respectively sold, the amount
of taxes, penalties, including arrears for former years, interest
accrued, the costs and expenses, including a reasonable counsel
fee, and the surplus fund in each instance; with each report
lie shall also file a copy of the printed list and notice aforesaid.
The said court shall examine said proceedings and if the same
appear to be regular and the provisions of the law in relation
thereto have been complied with, shall order notice to be given
to be advertised for two weeks in a newspaper published in
said county, warning all persons interested in the property sold
as aforesaid 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 in those
cases where no cause or no sufficient cause be given against
such ratification the court shall in one order ratify and con-
firm all sales so made and then entitled to be ratified and con-
firmed, and the purchaser or purchasers thereof shall in pay-
ment of the purchase money have a good title to the property
sold aforesaid; but if in the judgment of the court cause be
shown against the ratification of the sale of any property so
sold, the said sale shall be set aside as to such property, in
which case the said clerk and treasurer shall within thirty
days thereafter proceed to a new sale of the property by at
least three weeks' advertisement in a newspaper as aforesaid
and make the report of the same as hereinbefore provided, and
bring the proceeds thereon into court, out of which the pur-
chaser shall be repaid the money paid by him to the said clerk
and treasurer on the said rejected sale, and all taxes assessed
on said property and paid by the purchaser since said sale and
costs and expenses incurred in said court, and the costs and
expenses of sales with interest on all such sums from the time
of payment, and if the purchaser has not paid the purchase
money or subsequent taxes, such proceeds shall be applied to
the payment of the taxes for which said property may have