Procedure for sale of distrained property

The public officer, empowered under Act VII of 1839 to sell distrained property, shall cause to be fixed to the outer door of the defaulter's house, or on the premises where the property may have been distrained, a list of the property to be sold, with a notice specifying the place where, and the day and hour at which the distrained property will be sold and shall cause proclamation of the intended sale to be made by beat of drum in the village to which the lands on which the arrear has accrued may belong, and in such place or places as the Collector or other officer empowered by the Collector in that behalf, may consider necessary to give due publicity to the sale. No sale shall take place until after the expiration of a period of fifteen days from the date on which the notice may be so affixed: Provided that nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent the sale of any distrained property which is subject to speedy and natural decay at any time after the date on which the notice may be so affixed.