RSA 80:25 Adjournment; Sale by Agent.

Whenever it shall appear to the selectmen or assessors that the collector of taxes, after having posted his notices of a tax sale, will be unable to conduct the same at the time and place specified in the notices thereof, they shall have the power to appoint one of their number to adjourn the sale for not exceeding 3 days as the collector could do, if present. If the incapacitated collector has a deputy or deputies who have been duly appointed by him and bonded, then any such deputy shall have authority to postpone the sale in like manner. If, at the end of the adjourned period, the tax collector is unable to officiate by reason of illness or other unavoidable cause, the selectmen or assessors may appoint in writing any duly qualified deputy tax collector to conduct the sale and make the