If any person shall stop or take up any vessel or watercraft, or any raft of logs, or part thereof, or any logs suitable for making lumber or hewn timber, or sawed lumber, found adrift within the limits or upon the boundaries of this state, of the value of five dollars or upwards, including the cargo, tackle, rigging, and other appendages of such vessel or watercraft, such person, within five days thereafter, provided the same shall not have been previously proved and restored to the owner, shall go before some district judge, district associate judge, judicial magistrate or district court clerk where such property is found, and make affidavit setting forth the exact description of such property; where and when the same was found; whether any, and if so what cargo, tackle, rigging, or other appendages were found on board or attached thereto; and that the same has not been altered or defaced, either in whole or in part, since the taking up, either by the person or by any other person to the person's knowledge.
[C51, § 876--878; R60, § 1506; C73, § 1509, 1512; C97, § 2371; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 12199; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 644.1]
94 Acts, ch 1188, §27
C95, §556F.1
C2001, §556F.1A
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