Section 2

Section 2. In case no person or persons shall appear within the time hereinbefore stipulated, or in case he shall appear and does not make answer to said rule within fifteen days after appearance, the court shall make the rule absolute as to all persons who do not appear, or answer, as the case may be. Thereafter all rights and claims of those against whom the rule is made absolute with respect to said land shall be totally barred, and any deficiency or defects whatever in the procedure whereby the land was acquired at sheriff's sale, as aforesaid, from the filing of the claim up to and including the actual sale and delivery of sheriff's deed, shall not thereafter be asserted; and the title of the petitioner shall be adjudicated and decreed valid and indefeasible as against all such persons. If any person or persons shall appear and make answer to said petition, the court shall thereupon order and decree that such person or persons shall begin proceedings to establish his or their title or interest in, or claim against, said land, within ninety days thereafter; and if such person or persons shall fail to comply with said order or decree, the court shall thereupon make the rule absolute, with the same force and effect as hereinbefore stated.