Sale of property distrained and disposition of proceeds.
Section 306
SEC. 306. Sale of property distrained and disposition of proceeds.—The officer levying the distraint shall forthwith cause a notification to be exhibited in not less than two public places in the municipality or city where the distraint is made, specifying: the time and place of sale and the articles distrained. The time of sale shall not be less than twenty days after notice to the owner or possessor of the property as above specified and the publication or posting of such notice. One place for the posting of such notice shall be at the office of the mayor of the city or municipality in which the property is distrained. At the time and place fixed in such notice the saii officer shall sell the goods, chattels, or effects, or other personal property, including stocks and other securities so distrained, at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, or with the approval of the Commissioner, through duly licensed produce or stock exchanges. In the case of stocks and other securities, the officer making the sale shall execute a bill of sale which he will deliver to the buyer, and a copy thereof furnished the corporation, company, or association which issued the stocks or other securities. Upon receipt of the copy of the bill of sale, the corporation, company, or association shall make the corresponding entry in its books, transfer the stocks or other securities sold in the name of the buyer, and issue, if required to do so, the corresponding" certificates of stock or other securities. Any residue over and above what is required to pay the entire claim, including expenses, shall be returned to the owner of the property sold. The expenses charge-able upon each seizure and sale shall embrace only the actual expenses of seizure and preservation of the property pending the sale, and no charge shall be imposed for the services of the local internal-revenue officer or his deputy.