48 ALLEGANY COUNTY. [ART. 1.

ESTRAYS.

P. L. L, (1860, ) art. 1, sec. 64.

114. If any horned or black cattle shall break into any en-
closure, any justice of the peace in said county, on the application,
of the party aggrieved or owner or occupier of the land whereon
such estray shall be found, may issue a warrant to two such dis-
interested judicious persons as he shall appoint, to appraise and
value the said cattle at their true value in money, and the justice
shall administer to said appraisers an oath to appraise the same
according to their best judgment; and it shall be the duty of
such appraisers to make out a certificate of the valuation by them
made, together with a description of the estray, setting forth its
age, color and marks, natural and artificial; and the certificate
and warrant shall be lodged with the clerk of the circuit court
for Allegany county by the party taking up such estray within
fifteen days from the date of the warrant, and the clerk shall
enter the same in a book to be kept for that purpose, and shall
be paid therefor at the time of receiving the same the sum of
twenty-five cents.

Ibid. sec. 65.

115. The person taking up such estray shall also cause an
advertisement, giving a description thereof, to be set up at the
most public places in his neighborhood, or publish the same in
some newspaper within the time above limited for the return of
the warrant.

Ibid. sec. 66.

116. If the owner of such estray shall, within one year after
the filing of such certificate with the clerk of the circuit court,
appear and prove his right and title thereto before any justice of
the peace, he shall have restitution of the same, or the value
thereof, allowing and paying the costs of entering the warrant
and certificate, together with such necessary charges as shall have
arisen in keeping, notifying, appraising and necessary travel
about the said estray, as the justice before whom the proof is
made, or any other justice, may determine.

Ibid. sec. 67.

117. If no owner shall appear within the time aforesaid such
estray shall be and remain to the finder, he being answerable to