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 GENERAL LAWS

OF

THE TERRITORY OF DAKOTA.

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AMENDMENTS

CHAPTER I.

AN ACT AMENDING SECTION TWO OF CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE OF GENERAL LAWS OF 1862.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:

Section 1. That section two of chapter 35 of general laws of 1862, entitled “an act to provide for an estray law,” approved April 26, 1862, be amended so as to read as follows: It shall be the duty of any person taking up an estray, to send a description of the same to the Register of Deeds, within two weeks after taking it up; and the Register of Deeds shall immediately record the same in a book kept for that purpose. The taker up of any estray shall, within two weeks thereafter, procure que publication of the description of such animal in any one newspaper published within the county, and if no newspaper be published at the time in said county, publication may be made by posting up, in three public places in said county, the description of such animal.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Approved, January 11, 1864.

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