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If the property regarding which a report is made to a Magistrate under section 83 or under section 19 of the Bombay Village Police Act, 1867, '[or of that Act as in force in the Kutch area of the '[State of Gujarat]] or under section 21 of the Saurashtra Village Police Ordinace 1949 appears to such Magistate to have been left by a person who has died, interstate and without known heirs and to be likely if sold in public auction to realise more than four hundred rupees net proceeds, he shall communicate with the District Judge with a view to its being dealt with under the provisions of section 10 of Bombay Regulation VIII of 1827 (a Regulation to provide for the formal recognices of heirs etc.) or other law in force. I. These words ware substituted for the words "In Greater Bombay" by Born. 56 of 1959, s.