§ 27-102-105 — Advertisement of property recovered

(a) Within twenty (20) days after making the affidavit, the taker up shall cause to be inserted in some newspaper printed in this state, for three (3) weeks successively, a correct account of the time and place when and where the property was taken up and the description and valuation thereof. He or she shall also put up three (3) advertisements to the same effect at the most public places in the neighborhood where the property may have been taken up. (b) If the amount of the property taken up does not exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) in value, no publication in the newspaper is necessary. (c) Persons taking up property and failing to give notice as required by this section shall forfeit all claims to salvage. Rev. Stat., ch. 134, §§ 5-7; C. & M. Dig., §§ 8737-8739; Pope's Dig., §§ 11430-11432; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 21-305 -- 21-307.