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Section 20, The Escheat Ordinance

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A copy of the certificate vesting the land in the Crown Notificationof certificate shall be affixed to the door of the Office of the Master of the vesting lands. Supreme Court and a notice of the issue of the certificate shall, ..,, Land escheated to form part of general revenue. Governor may appoint assessors. if possible, be affixed to some portion of the land and shall be published in the next issue of the Gazette. Such notice, which shall be in the form set forth in Schedule F, or as near thereto as circumstances permit, and shall be signed by the Attorney General, shall state that any person who appeared at the hearing may within three months, and any person who makes affidavit to the Court that he was unaware of the hearing of the case may, within six months from the date of the certificate of the Court, make application for leave to appeal to the West African Court of Appeal and that if no such application has been filed within the aforementioned times the land shall vest indefeasibly in the Crown.

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