WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor Ch. 409

(3) THE list and notice shall be published in at
least two [(2)] newspapers printed and published in the county
once a week for three [(3)] consecutive weeks prior to the second
Monday in [November] MAY.

(b) On the second Monday in [November] MAY, the county
treasurer shall, at the hour and place named in such
advertisement, proceed to sell all such pieces or parcels of land
and premises[, beginning]. THE TREASURER SHALL BEGIN with the
first on such lists and so on in order, upon which taxes,
interests, costs and fees [shall] HAVE not [then have] been paid,
and shall continue such sale on each secular day, legal holidays
excepted, from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m., until every parcel
[shall have] HAS been offered. Should the county treasurer, by
reason of illness or other disability, be unable to attend or
conduct such sale in person, a deputy shall conduct such sale.
[In such case the deputy shall make the affidavit to the report
of sales provided for in section 2-7-117 of this Code.]

[2-7-117.

The county treasurer shall, within thirty (30) days after
the close of the sale provided for in the preceding section, make
a full report thereof to the circuit court for the 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, interest accrued, proportional costs of
advertising such sale, the costs and expenses of making and
reporting such sale and the surplus fund in each instance, with
which report he shall also file a copy of the printed list and
notice provided for in the preceding section. The court shall
examine such 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 as the court may direct, warning
ail persons interested in the property sold to be and appear in
such court by a certain day, to be named in such order, to show
cause, if they have any, why such sale shall not be ratified and
confirmed. In those cases where no cause or an insufficient
cause is given against such ratification, the court shall, in one
order, ratify and confirm the sales so made and the purchaser
thereof shall, on payment of the purchase money and delivery of a
deed therefor, as hereinafter 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, such sale shall be set aside as to such
parcel, in which case, the county treasurer shall, within thirty
(30) days, proceed to a new sale of the property, in which case
his proceedings shall be in all particulars similar to those in
the original sale, and the purchaser thereunder shall acquire the
same right and title as purchasers under the original sale, and
bring the proceeds into court, out of which the purchaser shall

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