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How property which has been seized, and is unclaimed or confiscated, shall be disposed of.
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11. Where no proof shall be given at the time of conviction of the ownership of property found in the possession of a person convicted under this Act, the justices shall cause the property so found to be deposited in some safe place for any time not exceeding thirty days, and shall order an advertisement to be inserted in one or more of the public newspapers of the town or city nearest the place where the same was found, and shall cause notice to be given, if in a town or city, by some public crier, and by fixing a printed notice on some public place, describing such property and where the same may be inspected; and in case any person shall prove his own or his employer’s ownership or property therein, upon oath, to the satisfaction of the justices presiding at the petty sessions of the district, restitution of such property shall be ordered to the owner thereof, after paying the reasonable cost of removing, depositing, advertising, and giving notice of the same; but if no ownership be proved to such property, the justices presiding at the court of petty sessions of the district shall, at the termination of thirty days, order such property to be sold, and after deducting the charges aforesaid, with the charges of sale, shall order the residue to be applied in the same manner as a penalty under this Act: Provided always, that if it appear to said justices that the yarns are of such a kind as, if sold in an unwrought state, would be liable to be purchased by fraudulent dealers, to be used by them as a cover for their fraudulent transactions, the said justices may order the same to be delivered to the keeper of the nearest house of correction, or some other person whom they may appoint, to be wrought up and disposed of under his inspection; the free proceeds of the same, when sold, to be applied as before directed.
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