Sect.  11.  Whoever  takes  away  a  beast  taken  up  as  a  stray  without
paying  all  lawful  chai-ges  incurred  in  relation  to  the  same,  shall  forfeit
to  the  finder  the  value  thereof,  to  be  recovered  in  an  action  of  tort.
CHAPTER    80.
OF  UNCLAIMED  PROPERTY  TRANSPORTED  BY  COMMON  CARRIERS.
Section

1.  Railroads  and  proprietors  of  steamboats  to
pubUsh  lists  of  unclaimed  eflFects  of  passen-
gers.
2.  Advertised  articles  unclaimed,  to  be  exam-
ined by  mayor,  &c.,  and  ordered  sold,  &c.
Section

3.  Proceeds  of  sale  over  expenses,  to  be  paid
into  state  treasury

4.  Penalty  for  neglect  to  advertise,  &c.
5.  Perishable  articles  transported  by  common
carriers  may  be  sold.
Railroads  and
proprietors  of
steamboats  to
publish  lists  of
unclaimed  ef-
fects of  passen-
gers.
1851,  147,  §  1.
Advertised  arti-
cles unclaimed
to  be  examined
by  mayor,  &c.,


Section  1.  Every  railroad  corporation  and  the  proprietors  of  every
steamboat  engaged  in  the  transportation  of  passengers,  shall  on  the
first  Monday  of  January  and  July  in  each  year,  publish  in  one  newspa-
per at  least  in  every  county  of  this  state  in  which  such  railroad  coqiora-
tion  or  steamboat  proprietors  have  a  passenger  station  or  ofiice,  a
descriptive  list  of  all  trunks,  carpet  bags,  valises,  parcels,  and  passen-
gers' eifects,  left  and  then  remaining  unclaimed  at  any  passenger  station
or  ofiice,  or  in  the  possession  of  such  corporation  or  proprietors,  or  their
agents,  and  the  list  shall  indicate  all  such  specific  marks  as  may  serve  to
identify  the  same.
Sect.  2.  If  at  the  expiration  of  six  months  after  such  advertisement
any  of  the  articles  so  advertised  still  remain  unclaimed,  the  railroad
corporation  or  steamboat  proprietors  in  whose  possession  they  are  shall


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WRECKS  AND  SHIPWRECKED  GOODS.
