Section 24

On receiving a notice under subsection (1) of section 23 of this Enactment or where any such treasure trove or suspected treasure trove has been delivered to him under subsection (7) of section 23 of this Enactment, the District Officer or the President shall cause a notice to be published in the Gazette in two successive issues requiring all persons claiming the treasure trove or any part thereof to appear personally or by agent before the

District Officer or the President on a day and at a place therein mentioned such day not being earlier than two months or later than three months after the date of first publication of such notification in the Gazette.

Such notice shall be posted at the office of the District Officer or the President and at the place where such treasure trove was found.

Where the owner or occupier of the place in which the treasure trove appears to the District Officer or the President to have been discovered was at the date of discovery some person other than the finder, the District Officer or the President shall also serve on such person a notice in writing to the same effect.

Forfeiture of right for failing to appear.