On receiving notice of the taking up of an estray, the ranger or justice of the peace shall issue his summons to two disinterested and competent persons of the neighborhood who, first having been sworn to value and appraise the same truly, shall value and appraise such animal and certify the valuation under their hands, together with a particular description of the kind, marks, brand, stature, color, and age, which certificate shall be returned or transmitted to the ranger within ten days to be registered.
Miss. Code Ann. § 69-13-303
Appraisement and description of estrays
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 12, art. 1 (1); 1857, ch. 32, art. 3; 1871, § 289; 1880, § 899; 1892, § 1716; 1906, § 1894; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1542; 1930, § 5450; 1942, § 4878.
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