An animal that was found between Jerusalem and Migdal Eder or at a similar dis-tance [from Jerusalem] in any direction: males are [assumed to be] burnt-offerings, females are [assumed to be] peace-offerings.  R’ Yehudah says: Those suitable for pesach-offerings are [assumed to be] pesach-offerings, during the thirty days before Pesach.

Originally, they would seize collateral from the finder until he brought its nesachim. [But] when they began abandoning it and fleeing, beis din instituted that its nesachim should come from the public [treasury].

Said R’ Shimon: Beis din instituted seven ordinances, and this is one of them. [The others are:]  [If] a Gentile sent his burnt-offering from a faraway country and sent nesachim with it, they are offered from his own; if not, they are offered from the public [treasury].  Similarly, a proselyte who died and left offerings, if he had nesachim, they are offered from his own; if not, they are offered from the public [treasury].  It is a stipulation of beis din regarding a Kohen Gadol who died that his flour-offering be brought from the public [treasury].  R’ Yehudah says: [It was purchased] with his heir’s [money].  [In this case] it was offered whole.

Regarding the salt and the wood [beis din instituted] that the Kohanim may make use of them;  regarding the [Red] Cow [they instituted] that its ashes be exempt from [the laws of] me’ilah;  and regarding [replacements for] the dis-qual-ified bird-offerings that they should come from the public [treasury].  R’ Yose says: The one who supplies the birds must supply [replacements for] the disqualified ones.