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Sale of cattle not claiaed.-- (1) If within ten days after any cattle has been impounded, no person appearing to be the owner of such cattle claims the cattle under section 270, such cattle shall be forthwith sold by auction. ( 2 ) If within the period speci%ied in sub-section dl), the owner or his agent claims the ca%tle but refuses or fails to pay the pound-fees and the expen- ses chargeable under the next succeeding section, the cattle or as many of them as may be necessary, shall be sold by auction: Provided that, if the catLle is not sold at auction under sub-section 41) or ( 2 1 , it shall be disposed of in.such other manner as the Government may by rules prescribe. 331 The Government may frame rulew prescribing the nanner in which auction under sub-section (1) Q Y ( 2 % may be held. ( 4 ) The surplus remaining after deducting the pound-fee and expenses aforesaid from the proceeds of the sale, ahall be paid to any person who wikhin f i f t e n days after the sale, proves to the satisfaction of the Chief Officer, that he was the owner of such catkie and shall in any other case, from part of the municipal fund. + 151 No police officer, or Councillor or officer or servant of the Council, including the pound-keeper, shall, directly or indirectly, purchase any cattle at a sale under sub-seckisn (1) or ( 2 1 . 274, Pound-fees and expenses chargeable go be fixed. -- 18) The pound-bee cFargeabPe shall be such as $he Government may, from time to time, by rules prescribe for each kind sf cattle, 12) The expenses chargeable shall be a% such rates o r each day d ~ r i n g any part of which any cattle is impounded, as the Council may by bye-laws f i x s %75. Complainte ' of illegal seizure or detcxition. -- ( 1 1 Any person whose cattle have been seized under this Chapter, or having been so seized, have been detained, in esntsaventisn thereof, may, a% any time, w i t h i n ten days from the date o f the seizure, make a complaint to a Magistrate sf the first class9 ( 2 ) The complaint shall be made by the complain- ant in person, or by an agent personally acquainted with the circumstances. If the Magistrate on exami- ning the complainant or his agent has reason to believe that the complaint is well founded, he shall sumon the persons complained against, and hake an inquiry into the case. ( 3 ) If the seizure or detention be adjudged illegal, the Magistrate shall award to the complainant for the loss caused by the seizure or detention reasonable compensation not exceeding one hundred rupees to be paid by the person who made the seizure ok detained the cattle, together with all fees paid and expenses incurred by the complainant in procuring the release of the cattle, and if the cattle have not been released, %he Magieksata shall, besides awarding such compensation, order their release and direct that the fees and expenses leviable under this chapter shall be paid by the person who made the seizure or detained the cattle. 14) The compensation, fees and expenees mention- ed in this section, may be recovered as if they were fines imposed by the Magistrate. t 62) Other provisions relating to animals,