ESTRAYS—VESSELS ADRIFT—DRIFT LOGS

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ARTICLE 34.

ESTRAYS—VESSELS ADRIFT—DRIFT LOGS.

	Estrays.	10. Proof of title and recovery.
	1. Notice of estrays to be published and	11. Penalty.
	set up.
	2. Mode of giving notice.	Drift Logs.
	3. Proof of ownership. Payment of costs.	12. Payment to owner of shore where cast.
	4. Sale of estrays.	13. Advertisement by owner of shore.
	5. Penalty for failure to comply with	14. If unclaimed.
	provisions for taking up estrays.	15. Responsibility for proceeds of sale.
	6. Impounding estrays.	16. Compensation for special damages.
	7. Word "enclosure," how construed.	17. Removal before advertisement; pen-
	8. Counties excluded from operations of	alty.
	preceding sections.	18. Removal after advertisement; penalty.
		19. Marking by claimant; penalty.
	Vessels Adrift.	20. Judgment for drift logs.
	9. Notice and publication.

Estrays.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 1. 1912, 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, 1924, sec. 2. 1912, 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, 1924, sec. 3. 1912, 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
witness examined before a justice of the peace of the county his title
thereto, the same shall be delivered to him upon his paying the expenses
incurred by the person taking up and keeping the same, including the
cost of advertising.