Chapter 135

Section 1. Common carriers engaged in the transportation of passengers may sell baggage left unclaimed in their possession for a period of one hundred and twenty days at public auction, after publication of notice of such sale once a week for five successive weeks in a newspaper …

Section 10. The proceeds of such sale, or the balance of such unclaimed money, after deducting all reasonable charges and expenses incurred on such property, shall be paid into the city treasury.

Section 11. If, within two years and two months after such money has come into the possession of a member of the police department of a city or within two years after such sale of other property, the owner claims and proves ownership thereof, the unclaimed balance of such money o…

Section 12. The owner of a log, mast, spar or other timber carried by flood into land adjoining any river, stream or pond may, within six months, remove the same from said land upon paying or tendering to the owner or occupant thereof such reasonable damages as may be caused by s…

Section 5. When a common carrier has transported fresh meats, fresh fish, shellfish, fruit or vegetables to their destination, such carrier may, in the exercise of a reasonable discretion, after notice to the owner or consignee thereof of the arrival of such goods and his refusal…

Section 6. If goods carried by a railroad company, by express or in a vessel are not called for by the owner or consignee within one year after the date of their receipt at the place of consignment, they may be sold by public auction, notice of the time and place of sale, contain…

Section 7. If property which has been stolen, lost, abandoned or taken from a person under arrest comes into the possession of a member of the police department of a city by virtue of his office, he shall deliver the same to the officer or member of the department designated by t…

Section 8. If such property remains unclaimed in the possession of such police department or member thereof for one month and the owner thereof or his place of abode or business is unknown, or if the owner and his place of abode or business are known and the owner, after receipt …

Section 9. Such property, if perishable or liable to deteriorate greatly in value by keeping or the value of which will probably be less than the expense of keeping the same, may be sold by public auction within said two months in accordance with the rules of the department, reas…