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from recovering auj part thereof, and the same shall he paid bj 

 the officer making the sale to the overseers of the poor of the town, 

 or, in cities, to the officers having their powers, for the use of the 

 poor thereof, and their receipt shall be a legal discharge to the 

 keeper of such beasts and the officer selling the same. If the offi- 

 cer who shall have sold such beasts shall not, vv^ithin thirty days 

 after the expiration of the year, pay such moneys to the overseers 

 of the poor of the town, or, in cities, officers having their powers, 

 he shall forfeit to the town or city double the sum so remaining in 

 his hands, together with the amount of such moneys. 



§ 394. Damages from other personal property. When any person 

 shall be authorized to distrain inanimate goods or chattels doing 

 damage, or whenever any logs, timbers, boards or plank, in rafts 

 or otherwise, or other personal property shall have drifted upon 

 his lands, he shall be entitled to the same remedies, and shall pro- 

 ceed therein in the same manner and with the same powers as 

 herein provided with respect to beasts found doing damage, so far 

 as such provisions are applicable. He may at any time deliver 

 his notice of lien to the town clerk, describing the property, and 

 he shall keep the same in some convenient place, without removal 

 to a pound, until 'the property is sold or reclaimed. The same 

 officer shall conduct proceedings therein as in proceedings where 

 beasts are found doing damage, and all proceeds of sale shall be 

 in like manner, paid over and applied, subject to the same penal- 

 ties and liabilities, and with the same force and effect. 



§ 395. Penalty for conversion of floating lumber. Whoever shall 

 convert to his own use, without the consent of the owner thereof, 

 any logs, timber, boards or plank, floating in any of the waters of 

 this state, or lying on the banks or shores of any such waters, or on 

 any island where the same may have drifted, shall, for every 

 offense, forfeit to the owner of such logs, or other lumber, three 

 times the value thereof. ISTothing contained in this section shall 

 be construed to extend to that kind of lumber called drift-wood. 



§ 396. Application of article. The villages and cities of this 

 state shall be considered towns for the purposes of this article; 

 and the trustees of the village and the aldermen of the city shall 

 be fence viewers therein for the purposes of this article. 



