Section 59. Immediately on receipt of the application, the proper officer shall send a copy of it to the Court,

59. Immediately on receipt of the application, the proper officer shall send a copy of it to the Court, and shall serve a notice in the form contained in schedule C hereto annexed or to the like effect on the person whose property has been distrained, requiring him either to pay the amount demanded, or within fifteen days from the receipt of the notice to institute a suit to contest the demand. The officer shall at the same time send to the Court, for the purpose of being put up at the Court-house, a proclamation fixing a day for the sale of the distrained property, not less than twenty days from the date of the proclamation; and shall deliver a copy of the proclamation to the person charged with the service of the notice, to be put up by him in the place where the distrained property is deposited. The proclamation shall contain a description of the property, and shall specify the demand for which it is sold, and the place where the sale is to be held.