Section 69-13-311 - Death or escape of estrays reported

When any estray shall die or escape, the taker up shall, without delay, make report thereof to the ranger, on oath, who shall make a memorandum of the same on the margin of his book opposite the registry of the certificate of such estray.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 12, art. 1 (4); 1857, ch. 32, art. 5; 1871, § 291; 1880, § 901; 1892, § 1720; 1906, § 1898; Hemingway's 1917, § 1546; 1930, § 5454; 1942, § 4882.