Sec. 50-3. Expressmen and common carriers; goods not perishable.
Sec. 50-3. Expressmen and common carriers; goods not perishable. Each person engaged in the express business, and each common carrier, who has in his possession
for six months any unclaimed article not perishable, may sell it at auction and out of
the proceeds retain the charges of transportation and storage and of advertising and sale.
No such sale shall be made until four weeks after the first publication, in a newspaper
published in the county in which the place is located to which such unclaimed article
or articles are consigned or addressed, of a notice of such sale, containing a description
of such articles and the name of the person to whom directed; and the expense of advertising shall be a lien upon the articles advertised, in a ratable proportion according to the
amount received for each article. Such notice shall be published at least twice within
said four weeks. No such article or articles shall be removed or transported from the
place to which consigned until after the expiration of such four weeks.
(1949 Rev., S. 7288.)