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28. If the name of the offender be unknown, he may be ar-
rested on a warrant describing him as the person committing
the offence, without stating his name in the warrant.

29. All forfeitures of property incurred under this article may
be enforced in this way: the sheriff or constable shall on com-
plaint made to him, seize the property alleged to be so forfeited,
and give notice to the owner thereof, if the owner can be found,
to appear before a justice of the peace of the county where the
seizure is made, on a certain day within five days from the time
of seizure, to show cause why the property so seized should not
be condemned; and if the owner of the property so seized
evades the service of said notice, then the sheriff or constable
may set up notices at three of the most public places in the
neighborhood of the seizure, warning the owner of such property
to appear before a justice of the peace to be therein named, on a
certain day not less than ten days from the time of seizure, to
show cause why the said property should not be condemned.

30. If. upon the hearing in any case of seizure as aforesaid the
justice is satisfied that the owner or person having charge of the
property so seized is guilty of violating any of the provisions of
this article which imposes a forfeiture of such property for such
violation, then such justice shall adjudge the same to be con-
demned and sold by the sheriff or constable seizing the same, (or
if he be dead or removed away, by some other officer) on ten
days' public notice; and the justice may proceed ex parte to hear
and determine any question of forfeiture, if the owner fails to
appear after the notice herein required to be given.

31. If the sheriff or constable making a seizure of property
under this article does not know the name of the owner or person
having charge thereof, he may describe him in the notice he is
required to give as the owner of the property, without naming
him, and the justice, if he does not know the name of the owner,
may condemn the property as the property of a person guilty of
violating the law, without naming such person.

32. The proceeds of the sale of any property forfeited as afore-
said shall, after paying the expenses of the seizure, condemna-
tion and sale, be divided, one-half to the sheriff or constable
making the seizure, and the other half to the informer.