§ 45-c. Tax sales in October of the years nineteen hundred forty,
nineteen hundred forty-one, nineteen hundred forty-two and in November
nineteen hundred forty-three, nineteen hundred forty-four, nineteen
hundred forty-five, nineteen hundred forty-six, nineteen hundred
forty-seven, nineteen hundred forty-eight and nineteen hundred
forty-nine, validated. The sale of real estate for unpaid taxes in the
county of Suffolk held by the county treasurer in October of the years
nineteen hundred forty, nineteen hundred forty-one, nineteen hundred
forty-two, and November nineteen hundred forty-three, nineteen hundred
forty-four, nineteen hundred forty-five, nineteen hundred forty-six,
nineteen hundred forty-seven, nineteen hundred forty-eight and nineteen
hundred forty-nine and certificates of sale and deeds issued thereon to
purchasers including such county are hereby validated and confirmed in
so far as their validity might otherwise have been affected or may be
questioned by reason of lack of statutory authority with respect to the
form and substance of the notice of sale, conditions and manner in which
the several parcels were offered for sale, the basis on which bids were
permitted, made and accepted and especially insofar as there may have
been any failure whatsoever to comply with all or any of the provisions
of section twenty-two of the Suffolk county tax act as amended by
chapter one hundred eighty-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred
thirty-one.