N. Y. Rev. Stat., Title 13, Chap. 20, Persons meeting with Carriages, the Right. 2 Gray, 181. Chapter Forty-Four of Revised Statutes of 1846. (1592.) SECTION 1. Whenever any persons shall meet each etc., to turn to other on any bridge or road, traveling with carriages, wagons, carts, sleds, sleighs, or other vehicles, each person shall seasonably drive his carriage or other vehicle to the right of the middle of the traveled part of such bridge or road, so that the respective carriages, or other vehicles aforesaid, may pass each other without interference. Penalty, etc., for violating preceding Section. Penalty for employing Driver (1593.) SEC. 2. Every person offending against the provisions of the preceding section, shall, for each offence, forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, and shall also be liable to the party injured for all damages sustained by reason of such offence Provided, that proceedings shall be commenced for the recovery of such forfeiture within three months after the offence shall have been committed, and any action for such damages shall be commenced within one year after the cause of action shall have accrued. (1594.) SEC. 3. No person owning, or having the direction addicted to or control of any coach, or other carriage or vehicle running or traveling upon any road in this State, for the conveyance Drunkenness. of passengers, shall employ, or continue in employment, any person to drive such coach, carriage, or other vehicle, who is addicted to drunkenness, or to the excessive use of intoxicating liquors; and if any such person shall violate the provisions of this section, he shall forfeit at the rate of five dollars per day for all the time during which he shall have kept such driver in such employment. etc., to discharge of his being In (1595.) Sec. 4. If any driver, whilst actually employed in owner of Coach, driving such coach, carriage, or vehicle, shall be guilty Driver, on notice of intoxication, it shall be the duty of the owner or person toxicated. having the charge or control of such coach, carriage, or other vehicle, on receiving written notice of the fact, signed by any passenger who witnessed the same, and certified by him under oath, forthwith to discharge such driver from such employment; and every person who shall retain, or have in such service, within six months after the receipt of such notice, any driver who shall have been so intoxicated, shall forfeit at the rate of five dollars per day for all the time during which he shall keep any such driver in such employment after receiving such notice. Horses, guilty of etc. (1596.) SEC. 5. No person driving any carriage or vehicle Driver running for the conveyance of passengers for hire upon any road or misdemeanor, highway in this State, with or without passengers therein, shall run his horses, or cause or permit them to run, upon any occasion, or for any purpose whatever; and every person who shall offend against the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the Court. for leaving Horses (1597.) SEC. 6. It shall not be lawful for the driver of any Penalty on Driver carriage used for the conveyance of passengers for hire, to unfastened. leave the horses attached thereto, while any passenger remains in or upon the same, without making such horses fast with a sufficient halter, rope or chain, or without some suitable person to take the charge and guidance of them, so as to prevent their running; and if any such driver shall violate the provisions of this section, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty dollars; but no prosecution shall be commenced therefor after the expiration of three months from the time of committing the offence. (1598.) SEC. 7. The owners of every carriage running or owners of Cartraveling upon any turnpike road or public highway, for the riage liable for In persons in their employ. Juries done by conveyance of passengers for hire, shall be liable, jointly and severally, to the party injured, in all cases, for all injuries and damage done by any person in the employment of such owners as a driver, while driving such carriage, to any person, or to the property of any person, whether the act occasioning such injury or damage be wilful, negligent or otherwise, in the same manner as such driver would be liable. How Owner of Timber, etc., may Chapter Forty-Six of Revised Statutes of 1846. (1599.) SECTION 1. Whenever any logs, timber, boards or reclaim the same, planks, in rafts or otherwise, shall be drifted upon any island and consequence of neglect. Penalty for destroying marks in any of the waters within this State, or upon the bank or shore of such waters, the owner of such logs, timber or lumber may, at any time within one year, remove the same, on paying or tendering to the owner or occupant of the land such reasonable damages as may have been caused by reason of such removal, and if the owner shall not, within the said year, make such payment or tender, and take such logs, timber or lumber from such lands, unless he and the owner or occupant of such lands shall otherwise agree, the same shall be deemed the property of such owner or occupant of the lands. (1600.) SEC. 2. Whoever shall unlawfully cut out, alter or on Timber, etc. destroy, any mark of the owner, made on any logs, timber, or lumber, put into any lake, river, stream or pond, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten dollars for each log, stick of timber, or piece of lumber, the mark of which he shall have so altered, cut out or destroyed; and shall be liable to the party injured in three times the amount of damages. fendant when dence of guilt. (1601.) SEC. 3. In any suit under the provisions of the pre- Possession of Deceding section, if such logs, timber or lumber, shall be found presumptive eviin the possession of the defendant, with the marks cut out, altered, or destroyed, it shall be considered presumptive evidence of his guilt, and the burden of proof shall be upon him to discharge himself. son converting (1602.) SEC. 4. Whoever shall convert to his own use, with- Liability of perout the consent of the owner thereof, any logs, timber, boards, Logs, etc. or planks, floating in any of the waters of this State, or lying on the banks or shores of such waters, or on any island where the same may have drifted, except as in this chapter provided for, shall be liable to the owner thereof in treble the amount of damages. (1603.) SECTION 1. When any person shall find any lost money, or lost goods, if the owner thereof be known, he shall goods, etc., how given. Notice of finding immediately give notice thereof to such owner; if the owner thereof be unknown, and such money or goods be of the value of three dollars or more, the finder shall, within two days, cause notice thereof to be posted in two public places within the township where the same were found; and shall also, within seven days, give notice thereof, in writing, to the Township Clerk of such township, and pay him twenty-five cents for making an entry thereof in a book to be kept for that purpose. Ibid. Taking up Stray Notice to Owner, and entry on 13 I. Rep. 64. (1604.) SEC. 2. If the money or goods so found be of the value of ten dollars or more, and the owner thereof be unknown, the finder thereof shall also, within one month after such finding, cause notice thereof to be advertised in some newspaper in the same county, if one be published there, and if not, then in some newspaper published in an adjoining county, and continued therein for six successive weeks. (1605.) SEC. 3. It shall be lawful for any resident freeholder of any township in this State to take up any stray horses, mules or asses, by him found going at large in such township, beyond the range where such horses, mules or asses usually run at large; and also to take up, between the months of November and March, any stray neat cattle, sheep or swine by him found going at large therein, beyond the range where such animals have usually run at large. (1606.) SEC. 4. Such finder shall immediately give notice Township book. thereof to the owner of any such animal, if known to him ; but if the owner thereof be unknown, such finder shall, within ten days, cause notice thereof to be entered with the Township Clerk, in such book as aforesaid, containing a description of the color, age, and natural and artificial marks of such animals, as near as may be, and the name of such finder, and shall pay such clerk twenty-five cents for entering the same; and shall also cause such notice to be posted up in two of the most public places in such township. When notice to be published in Newspaper. (1607.) SEC. 5. If the owner of any such animal or animals shall not, within one month, appear and reclaim them, and such animal or animals taken up at the same time shall be of the value of ten dollars or more, the finder shall cause such notice to be published in a newspaper in the same county, if one be published there, and if not, then in a newspaper published in an adjoining county, and continued therein for six successive weeks. (1608.) SEC. 6. Every finder of lost goods or stray animals, |