Section 30, An Act to amend the Crown Lands Ordinance, 1960

If such owner cannot be found within the city, or sufficientdistress of his goods and chattels cannot be made, the Director of Public Works, after giving twenty-eight days’ notice of his intention to do so by posting a printed or written notice in a conspicuous place on such building, or on the land whereon such building stood, may take such building or land, provided that such expenses be not paid or tendered to him within the said twenty-eight days, making compensation to the owner of such building or land in the manner provided by the Public Lands Ordinance, in the case of lands taken otherwise than with the consent of the owners and occupiers thereof, and the Director of Public Works shall be entitled to deduct out of such compensation the amount of the expenses aforesaid, and thereupon to sell or otherwise dispose of the said building or land