1740 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 916

202. The Treasurer shall, within sixty days after the
close of such sale, make a full report thereof to the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County setting forth his proceedings
in the premises in detail, and showing to whom and at what
price such several parcels of land and articles of personal
property were respectively sold, the amount of tax, of inter-
est accrued, of proportional cost of advertising such sale, and
the costs and expenses of making and reporting said saler
and of the surplus fund in each instance, with which report
he shall also file a copy of the printed list and notice afore-
said; the said Court shall examine the said proceedings, and
if the same 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 in such newspaper
or newspapers as the Court may direct, 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 shall not be ratified and con-
firmed, and in these cases where no cause, or an insufficient
cause be given against such ratification, the Court shall in
one order ratify and confirm the sales so made, and the pur-
chaser or purchasers thereof shall, on payment of the pur-
chase money and the delivery of a deed therefor as herein-
after provided for, have a good title to the property sold,
but if good cause be shown against such ratification, in the
judgment of the Court, in relation to any parcel of land sold,
sold, the said sale shall be set aside as to such parcel, in which
case the said Treasurer shall, within thirty days, proceed to
a new sale of the property, in which case his proceeding's
shall be in all particulars similar to those in the original sale,
and the purchaser thereunder shall acquire the same right
and tile as purchasers under the original sale, and bring the
proceeds into court, out of which the purchaser shall be re-
paid the purchase money paid by him to the Treasurer on
said rejected sale, and all taxes assessed on said real estate
and paid by the purchaser since said sale, with interest on
all such sums from the time of payment; and if the purchaser
has not paid the purchase money or the subsequent taxes said
proceeds shall be applied to the payment of the taxes for
which said property may have been sold, and all subsequent
taxes thereon then in arrears, with interest on the same ac-
cording to law; and no sale made under the provisions of
this Act shall be set aside if the provisions of law shall ap-
pear to have been substantially complied with, and the burden
of proof shall be on the exceptant to show the same to be
invalid.

205. After the expiration of two years from the date of
such sale (provided the same shall have been ratified by the