724                        LAWS OF MARYLAND.                  [CH. 280

from ten o'clock A. M. to three o'clock P. M. until every
parcel shall have been offered. Should the treasurer, by rea-
son of illness or other disability, be unable to attend or con-
duct such sale or sales in person, a deputy shall conduct such
sale or sales, and in such cases the deputy shall make the
affidavit to the report of sale provided for in Section 496. And
in the case of a sale of personal property only, the purchaser
or purchasers of the articles sold shall have a good title to the
same, and the treasurer shall deliver the said personal prop-
erty to said purchaser or purchasers upon payment of the full
amount of the sale price thereof. Provided, that in order to
facilitate the operations of this section during the year 1933,
the treasurer may, if he should find it necessary or expedient
to do so in that year, extend the time limits prescribed in this
section as follows: 1. For publishing the list and notice of
delinquent taxpayers he may have until the second Monday in
May, instead of the second Monday in March; for holding the
tax sales in pursuance of said notice he may have until the
second Monday in June, instead of the second Monday in
April; and for his final settlement, until the first day of Oc-
tober, instead of the first day of June. After the year 1^933,
the time limits prescribed in this Article shall be strictly ad-
hered to and shall be mandatory upon the treasurer.

496. When any real estate shall be sold for taxes under
the provisions of this Article, said sale or sales in each and
every case shall be reported by the treasurer to the Circuit
Court for Anne Arundel County within thirty days from the
date of said sale, in which report shall be shown to whom
and at what price such several parcels of land and articles
of personal property were respectively sold, the amount of
taxes, of interest accrued, of the proportionate cost of adver-
tising such sale and the prescribed costs of making and report-
ing said sale. Upon which report, if the court shall find the
proceedings regular, and that the provisions of the law in rela-
tion thereto have been complied with, there shall be a brief
order nisi passed in each case and a copy thereof published,
as in the case of judicial sales by trustees, in the newspaper or
newspapers then having the contract for the county publishing,
and if no sufficient cause be shown to the contrary, the sale
shall be finally ratified by said court, separately in each case
or, in the court's discretion, in one order, ratifying and con-
firming all of such sales where there has been no sufficient
cause shown. But if sufficient cause in any case be shown to