The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-05-17
Public Local Law.
An ACT to incorporate the C eli and Hartford
Counties Boom Company

Counties Boom Company.
SECTION l. Be II enacted by the General Assembly oil
Maryland that James II. Rowland Thomas G. Bond
James A. Davis Robert Il. Vandiver, Henry James, Jo-
seph Matthew'S Ravan X. Hawley, John r. Moore Jesse
X Hines, A. L. Jarrett, Richard Grason A. p McCombs
and Robert Fowler together with such other persons
after specified be and they hereby created body
polite and corporate under the name of the Cecil and
Hartford counties Boom Company and by that shall
have perpetual succession and may and be sued make
and SEAL and pass all bylaws necessary for
the management Of the affairs of said corporation, the
regulation of its stock the calls for nstamens thereon
not cpugnan to the laws of this State of the United
States.
Sec q And be it enacted That the capital stock of the
said corporation shall he hundred thousand dollars,
with the privilege of increasing the to five hundred
thousand dollars its business shall require, divided
into shares of one hundred dollars oac to obtain winch
the persons above named shall be commissioners and for
that purpose they majority of them or such person
persons they 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 subscrib
ing advertisement published in newspaper newspa
pers in Baltimore city Cecil and Hartford counties respect
lively said books be kept open for ut least ten days and
for such longer time the said commissonersor majority
of them may think proper and If upon closing the said
books there shall be found TO have been subscribed
than one thousand shares the said commissioners shall
reduce the subscriptions to one thousand shares in such
manner they may deem equitable and upon closing
the hooks, the adjustment of the subscriptions, the
said commissioners majority of them, shall give ten
days public notice. by advertisement in the manner afore
said of the time and place of meeting to be held by the
stockholders the election of President and managers
:, the organization of the corporation provided that
il shall not be necessary to the organization of the
said corporation that the whole amount of thousand
shares shall be subscribed at the closing of the books
hut that the meeting for the election OF President and
managers shall be held and the organization take place,
and the corporation proceed to the exercise of the powers
Icreby ed on it, if two hundred and fifty shares
.ull hc found to have been subscribed and paid
ia az the closing of the books aforesaid; and in the
cent of 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 is1ess OF the said
c. rorayu. ticre shall hn elected by Inc sio khaidrrs
egl.nt AMI is, 0lNtgcIS, VINO shall have 'i the now.
the sA curnurUlD; the first gtccrgn 20 he'd at
inc designated by ihe raid commissioners, and al
subsequent c the first Mon n, in November IN
each year, AZ which elections tho Stockholders Iay vote
in person or y proxy; in caseo afa to hold an cleo
ton at any time the persons then in Office shall hold
until q new election takes place.
Sec g. And be 1t 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 booms
with piers may be necessary for the purpose of stop
ping and securing logs masts, spars boards and other
lumber floating on the said river and also the erecting
constructing and maintaining Of such side branch
booms may be necessary for the purpose; provided
that such side branch booms shall not extend in the
main channel of the river beyond the point where the
water is six feet in depth at low tide; and pro-
vided also that boom shall be constructed to in
terrupt the navigation river and the side or branch
booms above mentioned may be constructed and located
at any place between the point above designated for the
main boom or Blooms and Principle and Swan creeks !;
provided there shall be boom constructed from Coo
leys Point and Point Concord the west side of the r
or across the Ferry channel between Port Deposit in
Cecil county and Lapdum in Hartford county and from
the Maryland Canal to Pisces DecpWater 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 nor shall it be lawful for said
company, by the erection or of any boom booms
any works appurtenant thereto by the accmula-
ton logs, mass spars other lumber to obstruct in
any any channel by which ngress to- and egress
from such landings had; and provided further, that
boom or booms pier or piers any fixtures apper
tanning thereto shall be so constructed used in
wise to impede obstruct the navigation of the Ssque
hanna river any of its tributaries nor to infringe or
injure in any the rights and privileges Of the
owners, possessors of any fishery shore
property either the main land islands any other
property real personal and that said company shall
be liable for and pay all damages, direct consequential
that may he done to private property by of the
erection, maintainance use of said boom boOms
pier or piers, or any works appurenant thereto said
damages to be determined and ascertained by jury of
condemnation provided in section four which said jury
shall be summoned to ascertain aud the of
damages at the instance OF either the boom company
the owner of the property claimed to be injured de-
precated value and all cases where private owners of
property feeling themselves aggrcvcd injured in their
property may demand and require jury be summoned
TO ascertain the damage or injury to property claimed
to be injured and where the amount assessed by the
jury is i'll amount the same or less than that rendered by
the corporatOr 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 the summonng of the jury and the performance
of the duties entrusted to them; said boom or 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 ii shall be the duty Of
the said corporation the open spans that NAV be
left for that purpose to be carefully guarded and watched
as to catch and secure all logs mass spars timber
boards other lumber that may be adrt said river
and the said corporation shall from time to time and as
soon as sch logs mass spars TIMBER boards and other
lumber can be secured, faithfully deliver the same
to the owner owners thereof at mouth of main
BOOM in boom pockets furnished by the owner of said
logs other lumber when called for upon of the
boonage hereinafter provided and person shall be per-
mitted TO cucumber sd boom booms, any of them
by occupying the same part thereof with
either of logs boards other lumber without the per
mission of the said corporation the collecting boom
ing and delivering OF the logs boards other lumber
adrt the said river aforesaid there shall be allow
ed boomage of twenty-five cents each for all logs and
timber mass and spars twenty feet and under in length
aud fifty cents each for all over twenty feet long, for
which bOomage and other expenses should there be any,
the said corporation shall have lien upon the materials
boomed well as right of action at law against the
owner thereof and all logs other lumber that may be
secured in the said boom and RATED thererom shall be
counted by dsinterested parties and any logs boards or
other lumber be doomed and secured aforesaid and no
person shall appear claim the and pay the boonage
thereon within fifteen days thereafter it shall be lawful
for the said corporation after advertising the same in
each OF the counties of Hartford and Cecil for six success
sve weeks describing the marks thereon if any there
if no appears to claim the and pay the boom.
age, to dispose OF the at public auction cash and
the said corporation shall keep accurate and de-
scrpton of the property go Sold and shall hold the pro-
ceeds Of such sale after deducting the boomage and
pensos for the owner of the property sold for one year
after which, if no has appeared and received the
money in the interval one-fourh Of the proceeds NAV he
retained by the company and the remainder paid in the
Treasury for the Of the School Fund.- and when logs
boards or other lumber doomed and secured which
haze no marks Iy which they can he identified tile same
may tic sold at public auction in the manner aforesaid
and the proceeds may be retained by the said corpo
ration; and all persons sending logs or lumber Of dny
kind down tho said ryer 10 lie doomed r The boom Of
sad cyrpmHtcn. ,ai! previously sut ny mail to tho
Office Of he said corporal on ~ Port bcpus iescfi,ti
of the marks which t!ev incGd ald the cuautiy
70 be sent by them pcStvely to eTa e the sI
corporation to identify and secure the same under pen
atty ofhy dollars which shall be lien upon the LOGS or
I'm In Il
atcment Of Tie marks and quantity aforesaid. and it
shall be the G the party sending logs other lum
Der down the sud river to be boomed to drive the same
as near the rafting Place the condition of the boom
will permit and should he fail to do and the same be
done by IA" said corporation, the expenses Of doing
shal! he added to the booma9c, and he in like manner
lien upon the lumber; and before the said corporation
commence delivering logs boards other lumber out OF
said boom they shall give ten days notice Of their ncn-
tion SO to do in newspapers published In
Hartford and Cecil counties respectively, calling
upon the owners of lumber within the boom to
take charge thereof when delivered outside
Off and shonld the owner Of the logs, boards
or other lumber which has bpen dp1ivered from,