1368 ARTICLE 34.

ARTICLE 34.

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 provisions for taking up estrays. 6. Impounding estrays. 7. Word "enclosure," how construed. 8. Counties excluded from operations of 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. Eesponsibility for proceeds of sale. 16. Compensation for special damages. 17. Removal before advertisement; pen- alty. 18. Removal after advertisement; penalty. 19. Marking by claimant; penalty. 20. Judgment for drift logs.

Estrays.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 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 immediately,
or within a reasonable time thereafter, cause a notice to be inserted in
some newspaper published in the county where such estray is taken con-
taining 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.

An. Code, sec. 2. 1904, sec. 2. 1888, sec. 2. 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 foregoing 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 ap-
praisement and in good faith by the person taking the same.

An. Code, sec. 3. 1904, sec. 3. 1888, sec. 3. 1769, ch. 18, sec. 2. 1892, ch. 593.

3. If the owner of an estray demands it and shall prove by one credible
fitness examined before a justice of the peace of the county his title