MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 25-7-41. Rangers.

Rangers shall be entitled to the following fees:
(a) For taking the information of the taker up of
animal, and issuing summons for appraisers ......... $ .50
(b) For registering the certificate .................... .50
(c) Advertising estray ................................. 1.00
(d) For making sale .................................... .50
(e) And ten per centum commisssions on the amount of
sales.
(f) For taking proof of title, and order for delivery of
estray to the owner ................................ .50
(g) And there shall be allowed to the taker up the sum
of five dollars and his necessary expenses for
keeping the estray; but if two or more estrays of
the same species are taken up by the same person at
the same time, they shall be included in one
information, registry, and advertisement, and fees
shall be allowed to the ranger and taker up as for
only one; and when an estray shall be valued at more
than twenty dollars, an allowance shall not be made
to the taker up, except the sum of five dollars
herein allowed for taking up the estray, until the
same shall be approved by the board of supervisors,
and in no case shall the taker up receive more than
half of the proceeds of sale.
And allowance shall not be made to the taker up for
keeping the estray when the use of the same is equal
to the expense of keeping.
(h) For appraising estrays, to each appraiser .......... .50

SOURCES: Codes, 1880, Sec. 459; 1892, Sec. 2015; 1906, Sec. 2191; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 1872; 1930, Sec. 1801; 1942, Sec. 3949.


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