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Cattle found astray may be impounded, and the owner thereof fined.
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66. If any horse, cow, swine, or other beast, shall be found wandering or straying in or about any streets, squares, lanes, and passages, in any city or borough or town in which this Act shall be carried into execution, it shall and may be lawful for any person whatsoever to impound such horse, cow, swine, or other beast, in the nearest common pound, and the owner thereof shall for every such beast so found wandering or straying as aforesaid forfeit a sum not exceeding five shillings, together with the reasonable charges of impounding and keeping such beast; and such beast shall be detained until the said penalty and charges shall be paid; and if the same be not paid within seven days after such beast shall be impounded, it shall be lawful for any justice of peace acting in or for the country or place within which such pound shall be situate, upon the application of the person who shall have impounded such beast, to appoint and notify by public advertisement, and otherwise as to such justice shall seem meet, a time and place for the sale of such beast, and such time shall be not sooner than fourteen days from the date of the first notification thereof, and at the time so appointed and notified such beast shall be sold by public auction, unless the said penalty, with all the costs and charges of impounding and advertising such beast, shall be then and thereupon paid; and the money arising from such sale shall be in the first instance applied to the payment of such costs and charges, and the person who impounded such beast shall thereout receive the sum of five shillings, and the residue of such money shall be paid to the treasurer of such commissioners, to be by him paid, upon application, to the person whose property such beast shall appear to have been, and in default of and until such application shall be applied to the purposes of this Act.
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