AST. 36.] ESTRAYS AND VESSELS ADRIFT. 273

ARTICLE XXXVI.
Estrays and Vessels Adrift.

SEC. 1. If any horse, mule, cow, ox, bull, sheep, hog or other
domestic beast of the value of two dollars, the owner of which is
not known, shall be found trespassing on the enclosures of any
one, it shall be deemed an estray, and may be taken up as such,
and dealt with as provided in the next section.

2. Any person taking up an estray trespassing upon his en-
closures, shall cause the description thereof, taken by a justice
of the peace of the neighborhood, to be published for three suc-
cessive weeks in a newspaper published in the county where such
estray shall be taken up, if any be published there; if not, then
in such newspaper as the justice taking such description shall
direct; and the said justice is hereby required to direct publica-
tion as aforesaid, to be made in such newspaper as in his opinion
has the most extensive circulation in the county where such
estray shall be taken up.

3. In addition to the publication required by the preceding
section, any person taking up an estray shall set up notices con-
taining the description of such estray, at the court house door
of the county, and at three of the most public places in the neigh-
borhood where the estray was found.

4. If the owner of an estray demands it, and shall prove by
one credible witness examined before a justice of the peace of the
county his title thereto, the same shall be delivered to him on his
paying the expenses incurred by the person taking up such estraj
and keeping the same, including the costs of advertising.

5. If no person claims an estray within three months after the
same shall have been advertised as aforesaid, then the person
taking up the same shall apply to a justice of the peace of the
county, who shall, upon being satisfied that the notices herein-
before directed have been given, order him to sell the same at
public sale on ten days' notice, to be set up at three of the most
public places of the neighborhood, and after deducting from the
proceeds of sale, all expenses incident to taking up, keeping,
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