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ESTRAYS——VESSELS ADRIFT——DRIFT-LOGS.

[ART. 34

ARTICLE XXXIV.

ESTRAYS—VESSELS ADRIFT-DRIFT LOGS.

Estrays. 1. Notice of estrays to be published and set up. 2. Mode of giving notice. 3. Proof of ownership. Payment of costs. 4. Sale of estrays. 5. Penalty for failure to comply with the provisions for taking up estrays. 6. Impounding estrays. 7. Word "enclosure," how construed. 8. Counties excluded from the opera- tions of these several preceding sections. Vessels Adrift, 9. Notice and publication.

10. Proof of title and recovery. 11. Penalty. Drift Logs. 12. Payment to owner of shore where cast. 13. Advertisement by owner of shore. 14. If unclaimed. 15. Responsibility for proceeds of sale. 16. Compensation for special damages. 17. Removal before advertisement; pen- alty. 18. Removal after advertisement; pen- alty. 19. Marking, by claimant; penalty. 20. Judgment for drift logs.

Estrays.

1904, art. 34, sec. 1. 1888, art. 34, sec. 1. 1860, art. 36, sec. 2. 1876, ch. 308.
1882, ch. 162. 1892, ch. 593.

1. The owner or occupant of any enclosure, who may find any
horse, hog, sheep, cow or any other domestic animal, the owner of which
is not known, trespassing upon the said enclosed premises, shall immedi-
ately, or within a reasonable time thereafter, cause a notice to be
inserted in some newspaper published in the county where such estray
is taken containing a description of the same and the location of the
enclosure upon which such estray was taken and the name of the owner
or occupant thereof, and cause written or printed copies of such notice
to be set up in not less than three public places in the neighborhood.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1888, art. 34, sec. 2. 1860, art. 36, sec. 3. 1882, ch. 162.

2. If there be no newspaper published in the county where such
estray shall have been taken up, or if the value thereof shall not exceed
fifteen dollars, the newspaper publication provided for in the fore-
going section may be omitted; provided written or printed notices be
given as required by section 1 and that the valuation of the estray be
ascertained by appraisement and in good faith by the person taking the
same.