When an animal fit for food shall be taken up as an estray, and shall become troublesome, the person taking up the animal may have three disinterested citizens summoned by the ranger or a justice of the peace to appraise such estray, and he may kill the same, and pay the amount of the appraisement to the ranger or other person entitled to receive the same.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 69 - Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals
Chapter 13 - Stock Laws, Estrays
§ 69-13-301. Estrays to be taken up, posted, and ranger notified
§ 69-13-303. Appraisement and description of estrays
§ 69-13-305. Registering and advertising estrays
§ 69-13-307. Estray may be used by taker up
§ 69-13-309. Estray suitable for food slaughtered
§ 69-13-311. Death or escape of estrays reported
§ 69-13-313. Estrays to be sold if not claimed
§ 69-13-315. How owner may prove and reclaim
§ 69-13-317. Time allowed owner to claim and prove property
§ 69-13-319. Owner of estray sold entitled to net proceeds
§ 69-13-321. Ranger may seize estray not delivered according to law
§ 69-13-323. Date and amount of sale noted on register and paid to county treasurer
§ 69-13-325. Ranger's books open to inspection
§ 69-13-327. Ranger to administer oaths
§ 69-13-329. Authority of person other than county ranger as to estrays; fees
§ 69-13-331. Stallion suffered to run at large may be gelded
§ 69-13-333. Not lawful for drover to drive animals from range; penalty