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 CODIFICATION OF INTERNAL REVENUE LAWS therein the amount with which the said collector is chargeable, and the sums, if any, which have been paid over by him, so far as the same are ascertainable. SEC. 3976. SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. (a) AUTHORIZATION AND PROCEDURE.- The said marshal shall, him- self, or by his deputy, immediately proceed to levy and collect the sum which may remain due, with 5 per centum thereon, and all the expenses and charges of collection, by distress and sale of the goods and chattels, or any personal effects of the delinquent collector, giving at least five days' notice of the time and place of sale, in the manner provided by law for advertising sales of personal property on execu- tion in the State wherein such collector resides. (b) BLL OF SALE.- The bill of sale of the officer of any goods, chattels, or other personal property, distrained and sold as aforesaid, shall be conclusive evidence of title to the purchaser, and prima facie evidence of the right of the officer to make such sale, and of the correctness of his proceedings in selling the same. SEC 3977. SALE OF REAL PROPERTY. (a) AUTHORIZATION AND PROCEDURE.- For want of goods and chat- tels, or other personal effects of such collector, sufficient to satisfy any warrant of distress, issued as aforesaid, the real estate of such col- lector, or so much thereof as may be necessary for satisfying the said warrant, after being advertised for at least three weeks next before the time of sale, in not less than three public places in the collection district, and in one newspaper printed in the county or district, if any there be, shall be sold at public auction by the marshal or his deputy. (b) DEED OF CONVEYANCE. - Upon such sale, the marshal shall make and deliver to the purchaser of the premises sold a deed of conveyance thereof, to be executed and acknowledged in the manner and form pre- scribed by the laws of the State in which said lands are situated, and said deed so made shall invest the purchaser with all the title and interest of the defendant named in said warrant, existing at the time of the seizure thereof. SEC. 3978. DISPOSITION OF PROCEEDS OF SALE. All moneys that may remain of the proceeds of such sale of per- sonal or real property, after satisfying the said warrant of distress, and paying the reasonable costs and charges of sale, shall be returned to the proprietor of the property sold as aforesaid. 486

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