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TOWNS IMPROVEMENT CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 77

If owner cannot be found within the limits, or expences recovered as a civil debt, commissioners may take the house or ground.

77. If such owner cannot be found within the said limits, [or the expences
cannot be recovered as mentioned in section 76], the commissioners, after
giving twenty-eight days' notice of their 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 expences be not paid or tendered to them within the said
twenty-eight days, making compensation to the owner of such building or land
in the manner provided by the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, in the
case of lands taken otherwise than with the consent of the owners and
occupiers thereof, and the commissioners shall be entitled to deduct out of
such compensation the amount of the expences aforesaid, and may thereupon sell
or otherwise dispose of the said building or land for the purposes of
this Act.

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