1288 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 740

list and notice of sale. The said court shall examine the said
proceedings; and if the same appear to be regular and the
provisions of the law in relation thereto have been com-
plied with, shall order notice to be given by advertisement
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
should not be ratified and confirmed; and after hearing the
objections, if any, the Court in its discretion, shall in one
order ratify and confirm all sales so made, and then en-
titled to be ratified and confirmed, and the purchaser or
purchasers thereof, shall, on payment of the purchase
money, have a good title to the property sold, subject only
to owner's right to redeem, as hereinafter provided; but, if
in the judgment of the Court, good cause be shown against
the ratification of the sale of any parcel of land or other
property; in which case the said town clerk and treasurer
shall within thirty days proceed to a new sale of said prop-
erty and bring the proceeds into Court, out of which shall
be paid the purchase money paid to the town clerk and
treasurer on said rejected sale, and all taxes assessed on
said property since said sale, and all costs and expenses
properly incurred in said Court, with interest on all such
sums from the time of payment; but such sale shall not be
set aside if the provisions of the law appear to have been
substantially complied with, and the burden of proof shall
be on the exceptant to show the same to be invalid; and for
the purpose of making a just distribution of the proceeds
of any sale ratified and confirmed, the said court may pass
all such orders as may be just and equitable; and shall
have as full and complete jurisdiction as though it were
sitting as a Court of Equity.

(3) Whenever real estate shall be sold by the town clerk
and treasurer the person who was the owner thereof prior
to the sale may redeem same within the period of twelve
calendar months from the date of such sale by paying into
Court to be paid to the purchaser thereof the amount of
the purchase money, all subsequent taxes paid by the pur-
chaser, and all Court costs, with interest thereon, at the
rate of fifteen per centum per annum from the date of
sale, and the date of the payment of such taxes and costs
respectively. After the expiration of said period of twelve
calendar months, provided the property has not been re-
deemed and the sale has been finally ratified and confirmed
by the Court, the town clerk and treasurer then in office
shall, at the expense of the purchaser, by a good and suffi-
cient deed executed and acknowledged according to law,
convey to the purchaser or purchasers the parcel or parcels