A justice of the peace, where there is a county ranger, shall not have authority to do any act concerning estrays, except to take the information from the taker up and to issue the summons for the appraisers; and he shall be entitled to the same fee for such service as the ranger, to be collected and paid over by the ranger; but if there be not a ranger, a justice of the peace may perform all the duties.Codes, 1892, § 1730; 1906, § 1908; Hemingway's 1917, § 1556; 1930, § 5464; 1942, § 4892.
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