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ESTRAYS. 



An act relating to estrays, providing for taking them up and 

 giving a lien on them for all damages, costs, and expenses 

 incurred by reason of taking them up, and repealing all 

 other acts and parts of acts now in force relating to estrays. 



(Approved March 23, 1901. Amendments approved March 20, 1905 ; 

 March 6, 1907 ; April 22, 1909 ; May 20, 1915. Stats. 1901, p. 603 ; 

 1905, p. 395; 1907, p. 132; 1909, pp. 1060, 1079; 1915, p. 636.) 



SECTION 1. Any person finding at any time any estray jjjjjj 1 ^. " 

 domestic animal or animals upon his premises., or upon premises animals 

 to which he. has the right of possession, or upon highways 

 adjacent thereto, may take up the same and have a lien thereon 

 for all expenses incurred and costs in keeping and caring for 

 said animal or animals, as hereinafter provided; and no per- 

 son shall remove them from the possession of the taker-up, or 

 from the possession of the officer to whom they may have been 

 delivered, except as hereinafter provided ; provided, however, 

 in the counties of Trinity, Shasta, Del Norte, Siskiyou, 

 Lassen and Modoc, any person finding at any time any 

 estray domestic animal or animals upon his premises, or upon 

 premises to which he has the right of possession, shall not 

 have the right to take up said domestic animal or animals, nor 

 shall he have a lien thereon for all or any of the expenses 

 incurred and costs in keeping and caring for said animal or 

 animals, unless said premises are entirely enclosed with a good 

 and substantial fence. (As amended, Stats. 1915, p. 636.) 



SEC. 2. Any person taking up an estray animal or animals 

 shall confine the same in a secure place, and within five (5) taken up. 

 days file with the county recorder or county poundkeeper of 

 the county in which such estray is found, a notice containing 

 a description of the animal or. animals taken up, with the 

 marks and brands, if they have any, together with the proba- 

 ble value of each animal, and a statement of the place where 

 the taker-up found, and where he has confined the same. The 

 county recorder or county poundkeeper shall receive for filing 

 said notice the sum of fifty cents. If the value of said animal Publication 



i T -,-, n . -.of notice. 



or animals together exceed ten dollars, said notice must also 

 be published in a paper of general circulation within the 

 county at least once a week for three successive weeks, stating 

 the time on which the animal or animals will be delivered to 

 the constable, as provided in section five of this act, or if the 

 finder knows the owner of said animal or the person having 

 charge thereof, then, within five days after said animal is taken 

 up, he shall notify the owner of said animal, or the person 

 having charge thereof, which notice shall contain the same 

 information as the notice to be recorded, and hereinbefore pro- 

 vided, describing said animal so taken up, the date when it 

 was taken up, the place where found, and the place where kept, 

 and no charge shall be made for preparing and serving this 

 notice. This notice shall be in lieu of recording a notice for 



