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for the detention thereof from the time of sale, or
may recover the value thereof and damages in an
action of trover.
SEC. 59. Whenever personal property that has been assessed as the property of any individual in	Removed.
any county, city or election district, shall be removed
before the tax levied thereon has been collected, the
collector in whose hands the levy is, may pursue
said property and collect said tax in the same man-
ner as if the property remained in his said county,
city or district.
SEC. 60. If any person shall resist, strike or
menace with violence, any collector in the discharge	Resisting.in
of his duties, or shall resist attack or menace with
violence any person present, and bidding or pro-
posing to bid at any such sale of property by a col-
lector as aforesaid, the said collector may summon
for his defence the posse comitatus, and each person
so summoned shall be allowed fifty cents per day, to
be levied on the county or city as other charges ;
and if any person summoned shall refuse to serve,
he shall be liable to a fine of five dollars, to be re-
covered before a justice of the peace, one-half to the
use of the party prosecuting and the other half to
the county or city.
SEC. 61. If any person shall strike or assault a col-	Resisting.
lector in the discharge of his duty, or shall strike or
assault any person servingas one of the posse comitatus,
or shall strike or assault any person to deter or pre-
vent his bidding at a collector's sale, or for having
bid at such sale, he shall on indictment and conviction
thereof, be subject to a fine of not less than one
hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, and to
imprisonment for not less than two nor more than
twelve months.
SEC. 62. If any collector shall have good reason to	Reason to be-
believe that he will be resisted by violence in the	lieve.
discharge of his duty in making a sale, he may, prior
to the day of sale, summon the posse comitatus for his
protection and the protection of peaceable persons
attending such sale ; and the said posse, when so
summoned and attending, shall be paid as hereinbe-
fore directed, and shall be liable to be proceeded
against as hereinbefore provided, for failing or re-
fusing to attend.