The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-05-10
Public Local Law.
an ACT 10 incorporate the Cell and Hartford
Counties Boom Company.

james A. Davis, Robert r. vandver Henry James, .Jo-
seph Matthews, Ravan X. IawlGy, John I. Moore Jesse
K Hines A. L. Jarrett Richard Grason, A. p. McCombs
and Robert Fowler together with such other persons
may become associated with them in the manner herein
after specified be and they hereby created body
polite and corporate, under the of the Cecil and
Hartford counties Boom Company and by that shall
have perpetual succession and and be sued make
and use common seal, and pass all bylaws necessary for
the management of the affairs of said corporation the
regulation of its stock the calls for nstaments thereon
not epugnant to the laws OF this State or OF the United
States.
SEC And he it enacted That the capital stock the
said corporation shall be hundred thousand dollars
with the privilege of increasing the to five hundred
thousand dollars if its business shall require divided
into shares of hundred dollars EACH to obtain which
the persons above named shall lie commissioners and for
that purpose they majority Of them such person
or persons as they or a majority of them shall appoint,
shall open books of subscription in the city of Baltimore,
and upon days notice of the time and place of subcrb
ing by advertisement published in newspaper newspa-
pers in Baltimore city, Cecil and Hartford counties respect
vey said books to be kept open for at least ten days and
longer the said majority
of them may think proper and upon closing the said
books there shall be found to have been subscribed
than thousand shares the said commissioners shall
reduce the subscriptions to one thousand shares in such
they may deem equitable; and upon closing
the books, the adjustment of the subscriptions the
said commissioners majority OF them, shall give ten
days public notice. by advertisement in the manner aurC
said of the time and place of nerug 10 lie held rs :Lo
stockholders FOR the election of President and managers
End the organization the corporation; provided that
il shall not be necessary 10 The organization of the
raid corporation that the whole amount of one thousand
shares shall be subscribed Mt the closing Of the books
but that the meeting for the election of President nd
managers shall be held and the organization take place.
and the corporation proceed to the exercise of the powers
her"by r"!erred it, if two hundred and fifty shares
shall r found to have been subscribed and paid
in az the closing of the hooks aforesaid and in the
the first subscriptions falling short of the entire
capital hereby authorized the President and managers
may from time to time at their pleasure reopen the said
books until the entire capital shall be subscribed and
for the purpose Of carrying on the business of the said
corporaton there shall be elected by the stockholders
President and five managers, who shall have all the pow
es of the said corporation the t election to be held at
he gnntpi
subsequent elections the first Monday in November in
each year which elections the stockholders may
in person by proxy; in of failure to hold an cleo
ton at any tme the persons then in office shall hold
over until election takes place.
SEC. g. And be it enacted That the said corporation
shall have the power Of constructing and maintaining
the river Susquehanna, between the Pennsylvania line
and the head of sloop navigation such boom or booms,
with piers as may be necessary for the purpose OF stop
ping and securing logs, masts spars boards and other
lumber floating the said river and also the erecting,
constructing and maintaining of such side or branch
booms may be necessary for the purpose provided,
that such side branch boons shall not extend in the
main channel of the river beyond the point where tho
is six feet in depth at common low tide; and pro-
vded as that boom shall be constructed to in
terrt the navigation of said river and the side or branch
booms above mentioned may be constructed and located
any place between the point above designated for the
main boom or booms and Principle and Swan creeks;
provided there shall he no boom constructed from Coo
leys Point aud Point Concord the west side OF the rv
across the Ferry channel between Port Deposit in
Cecil county and Lapidum in Hartford county, and from
the Maryland Canal to Pisces or Deep Water Point ON
the east side of the river provided that public land
ing any place used such, shall be condemned for
the of said company, shall it be lawful for said
company by the erection of any boom booms,
any works appurtenant thereto, by the accumua
ton Of logs masts other lumber to obstruct in
any any channel by which ngress and egress
from such landings are had anu provided further, that
no boom booms pier piers or any fixtures apper
tanning thereto shall lie constructed used as lit any
wise to impede obsruct the navigation of the Ssquc
hanna river any of its tributaries, infringe
inure in any the rights and privileges of the
owners, possessois of any fishery shore
property, either the main land Orisiands, r,,!
property, real or personal and that said company shall
be liable for and pay all damages direct or consequential
that may lie done TO private property by reason Of the
erection maintenance or use OF said boom or boons,
pier PIERS any works appurenant thereto; said
damages to be determined and ascertaned by jury of
condemnation provided nsection four which said jury
shall be summoned to ascertain and the amount of
damages at the instance of either the boom company,
the of the property claimed to be injured or de-
recated in value and in all cases where private owners of
property feeling themselves aggreyed injured in their
property may demand and require jury to be summoned
10 ascertain the damage or injury to property SO claimed
he injured and where the amount assessed by the
jury is in amount the less than that rendered by
the corporators then the Judge of the Circuit Court of
the county within which the property lies shall deter
mine which Of the parties shall pay all the costs attend
ant on the summonng of the jury and the performance
of the duties entrusted to them said boom booms
shall be constructed permit the safe passage of
RATS and boats through the same when required in the
navigation of the said river and it shall he the duty of
the said corporation to the spans that may be
left for that purpose be carefully guarded and watched
to catch and all logs masts, spars timber,
boards or other lumber that may be adrt said river,
and the said corporation shall from time to time and
soon such logs masts spas timber, boards and other
lumber can be secured, faithfully deliver the same
to the owner thereof at mouth of main
boom, in boom pockets furnished by the owner of said
logs other lumber when called for upon payment of the
boomaSe hereinafter provided and person snail be per-
mtod TO cucumber said boom or booms, or any of them,
by occupying the same any part thereof with ratts
either Of logs boards other lumber without the per-
mission OF the said corporation; for the collecting boom
ing and delivering Of the logs boards or other lumber
adrt the said river, aforesaid, there shall be allow
ed boomage Of twenty-five each for all logs and
timber.
aud fifty cents each for all twenty feet long, for
which hoomage and other expenses should there be any,
the said corporation shall have lien upon the materials
boomed well right of action at law against the
owner thereof and all logs other lumber that may be
secured in the said boom and RATED theeirom shall be
counted by dsnterested parties and iany logs boards
other lumber be doomed secured aforesaid and
person shall appear TO claim the same and the boumage
thereon within fifteen days thereafter it shall be lawful
for the said corporation, after advertising the in
each the counties of Hartford and Cecil for six
weeks describing the marks thereon any there be,
no appears to claim the and pay the BOOM
age, to dispose OF the at public auction for cash and
the said corporation shall keep record and
scrpton OF The property sold and shall hold the pro-
ceeds of such SALE after dciuCtug the boonage and
penses for the of the property sold for year
after which, if no owner has appeared and received the
money in the interval onetourh of the proceeds may be
retained by the company and the remainder paid in the
Treasury for the of the School Fund.- and when logs,
boards or other lumber are doomed and secured which
have marks by which they can he identified, tho same
may be sold at public auction in the manner aforesaid,
and the proceeds may he retained by the said corpo-
ration; and all persons sending logs or lumber of any
kind down the said river lie doomed in the boom of
said corporation, shall previously transmit ly mail to the
office Of the said corporation at Port Deposit description
of the marks which they intend to and the quantity
to be sent by them respectively, enable The said
corporation to identify and the same, under
atty ofty dollars which shall be lien upon the logs
other lumber of the person so heglectng to forward
statement a; the marks and quantity aforesaid and it
sua he Tho ty u the party sending logs ether lum-
Der down '' Is; yer to be doomed, to drive the same
IS near HE raining place the condition of the boom
will permit and should he fail to do SO, and the be
done by c said corporation the expenses of so doing