Sec. 1. When any freight or any baggage of passengers has been conveyed by a common carrier to any point in this state and shall remain unclaimed for the space of three (3) months at the place to which it is consigned or checked, and the owner, whether known or unknown, fails, within that time, to claim such freight or baggage, and to pay the proper charges, if any there be against it, then it shall be lawful for such common carrier to sell such freight or baggage at public auction, offering each box, bale, trunk, valise or other article separately as consigned or checked.
Formerly: Acts 1865(ss), c.97, s.1.