If the owner of such property has not then appeared and the valuation thereof be under five dollars, or if such valuation is as much as five dollars and the owner shall not have appeared after the certificate has been published as aforesaid and also three times in some newspaper published nearest to the place where such property was taken up, it shall belong in either case to the owner of the land on which it was so taken, if an estray, or to the person taking it up in the case of a boat or vessel.
Code 1919, § 3566.