The Board of Education, district school board, municipal authorities, or judge, shall within thirty days after the receipt of the aforesaid report of said board of appraisers give public notice that all such unclaimed lots or parcels of land, or so much thereof as may be considered for the best interest of the school district, will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, said notice to be given by publication in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the state once each week for at least two successive weeks immediately prior to such sale, specifying the time and place when said unclaimed lots or parcels of land will be sold, together with a description of the same as returned by the Board of Appraisers.

Source: SL 1883, ch 114, § 4; CL 1887, § 1183; SL 1893, ch 165, § 3; RPolC 1903, § 1585; repealed by omission RC 1919; re–enacted SL 1971, ch 69, § 14; SL 1972, ch 28, § 8.