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If property for which compensation is obtained be afterwards recovered, the county treasurer shall be entitled to it for the benefit of the county, &c.
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73. Provided always, that if any property for which any person shall have received satisfaction by such presentment as aforesaid shall be afterwards discovered or obtained, the treasurer or treasurers for the time being of the county from which such satisfaction has been received may have and recover such property, and the same is hereby declared and enacted to belong unto and be vested in him or them for the use of such county or counties, in proportion to the sums respectively presented and raised off the same; and such treasurer may maintain in his own name any action and pursue any remedy or proceeding for the recovery of such property, or of damages for the same, which the person robbed might have had or maintained before such satisfaction received by such presentment; and such property, when recovered, shall be sold or disposed of by such treasurer, and the money arising from such sale, after deducting the charges for the recovery thereof, shall be applied by such treasurer to the use of the county, barony or half barony, or county of a city or town, by which such satisfaction shall have been made.
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