Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-04-19
CHAPTER 60.


AN ACT to provide for the taking up Of
RATS. logs and sawed lumber.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the GEN
cral Assembly Of the State of Iowa. That
If any person shall hereafter stop or take
up any raft of logs, or part thereof, or
any logs suitable for making lumber or
hewn timber found adrift on any water
course within the limits or upon the
boundaries of this State, it shall be the
duty of such person within five days
thereafter, provided the same shall not
have been previously proven and restored
to the owner, to go before some justice
| OF the peace or notary public ofthc county
i'll which the same was taken up, and
make affidavit, in writing, setting forth
an exact description of such raft or part
thereof, or logs, when and where the same
were found the number of logs and the
marks and brands thereon, that the same
have not been altered or deflccd since
the taking up by him or by any other
person to his knowledge
And it shall be the duty of such justice
OF the peace or notary public, within five
days thereafter, to transmit such affidavit
to the Clerk Of the District Court, of said
county, and the said clerk shall tlereupon
file the same in his office, and enter in his
estray book the description Of the said
property, the time and place. when and
where, and the name and residence of the
person by whom the same was taken up,
and the said clerk shall also publish
notice thereof for three weeks successive
ly in some newspaper printed in the
county.
Sec. 2. In all cases where the number
of logs taken up shall not exceed five, and
no person shall appear to claim and prove
same within three months after the publ.
cation Of such notice, then the property
in the same shall vest in the person tax
ing thcm up; but if the number thereof
shall exceed five, and the same be not
claimed or proven within six months after
such publication then it shall be the duty
of the finder to deliver them to the Sheriff
Of said county, and thereupon the same
proceedings shall be had and the same
disposition be made of the proceeds rails
ing from the sale thereof as is provided
for in chapter 60, article 2, of the Rcvis-
ion of 1860, in relation Of boats, vessels,
W. VIC N1luC VI WHICH CACCcuS tWCuty
dollars.
SEC. 3. AS reward for the taking up
of any such logs, or RATS Of logs, or any
part thereof, there shall be paid by the
owner to the person taking up the same,
for each log not exceeding ten, twenty
five cents, and for each log exceeding ten
and not exceeding fifty, twenty cents
Sec. 4. All the provisions of chapter
60, article 2, of the Revision of 1860, in
relation to the fees of officers and com
pensation for services performed, and
expenses incurred for publication of notice
except as hercinhc!nrc provided for, and
to fines and forfeitures for non compliance
with the requirements Of said act, shall
apply to this act.
Sec. 5. The provisions Of this act shall
apply to sawed lumber, and the parties
taking up the same shall be entitled to
fifty cents per thousand feet.
: Sec. 6. This act being deemed of i'm
mediate Importance shall take effect from
and after its publication in tho loaoa State
Register, and State Leader, newspapers
published in Dcs Moines, Iowa i
Approved, March 90, 1872
thereby certify that the foregoing act
was published in the Daily State Leader,
April 2, and in the Daily Iowa State Reg
lister, April 3, 1872.
ED WRIGHT,
Secretary Of State.