Section 282
SEC. 282. Except as otherwise specially provided, all goods, wares, or merchandise not duly entered and the duties paid or secured as provided by this Act, within ninety clays after importation, and all bonded goods upon which the duties have not been paid within the prescribed period, and all seized or confiscated goods, wares, or merchandise, shall be sold at: auction by order of the collector, as hereinbefore prescribed, after ninety days' public notice, which notice shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the custom-house where the sale is to take place. If, in the judgment of the collector the value of any one consignment of the property to be sold shall exceed five hundred dollars, a notice of such sale of such consignment shall be published weekly during the period of ninety days preceding such sale in a newspaper in general circulation in the town in which such sale is to take place, if any such paper there be.