Section 28
SEC. 28. If, in any case, proper affidavits and bonds are presented to the court or a judge thereof, asking for and obtaining an order of publication and an order for the custody of the property of the debtor, as provided in sections twenty-six and twenty-seven of this Act, and thereafter the petitioners shall make it appear satisfactorily to the court or a judge thereof that the interest of the parties to the proceedings will be subserved by a sale1 thereof, the court may order such property to be sold in the same manner as property is sold under execution, the proceed- to be deposited in the court to abide the result of the proceedings.