New Jersey § acts:saved-15 - (5)

§ acts:saved-15. (5)

5. That the treasurer, on receipt of the said duplicate, shall, in person or by notice

in writing left at the usual place of abode of each owner or possessor, demand of

and from each owner and possessor, not less than twenty days before the time of payment,

the sum assessed as aforesaid; and if any of the said owners or possessors shall

neglect or refuse to pay the sum assessed as aforesaid, for the space of twenty days

after the time fixed for payment thereof, it shall and may be lawful to and for the

said treasurer to seize and sell out, by public vendue, to the highest bidder, so

much of said land as will be requisite to discharge such assessment and all expenses

attending the recovery thereof, having first advertised the same for the space of

four weeks in five of the most public places in the vicinity where the said land is

located, by handbills; also in one newspaper published and printed in the county

where said land is located, for the same length of time, at least once in each week;

that if said estimate so made and collected as aforesaid should not produce a sufficient

sum of money to fulfill the purposes above-mentioned, the said directors shall make,

in like manner, an estimate of such sum as may be further necessary, which shall be

collected in like manner as hereinbefore directed.