The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-05-24
Public Local Law.
AN CT to incorporate the Cell and Hartford
Counties Boom Company.

AN 4 CT TO incorporate the Cell and Hartford
Counties Boom Company.
SECTION !. Be it enacted by the General Assembly OF
Maryland that James H. Rowland, Thomas O. Bond
seph Matthews Ravan X. Hawley, John T. Moore Jesse
X Hines, A. L. Jarrett Richard Grason, A. p McCombs
NAV become associated with them in the manner herein
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 nane shall
have perpetual succession and 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 nsalments thereon
not repugnant to the laws of this State or of the United
States
SEC q And be it enacted, That the capital stock fthe
said corporation shall be hundred thousand dollars
with the privilege of increasing the same to five hundred
thousand dollars II its business shall require, divided
into shares of hundred dollars eaCh to obtain which
the persons above named shall be commissioners and for
that nurpose they or majority of them, such person
or persons they majority of them shall appoint,
shall open books of subscription in tho city of Baltimore
and upon days notice of the time and place of subscrb
ing by advertisement published ina newspaper newspa
pers in Batimorecy Cecil and Hartford counties respect
yey said books be kept open for at least ten days and
for such longer time the said commissioners majority
of them may think proper and If upon closing the said
books there shall be found to have been subscribed moro
than thousand shares, the said mssoners shall
reduce the subscriptions to one thousand shares in such
manner they may deem equitable and upon closing
the books the adjustment of the subscriptions the
said commissioners or majority of them shall give ten
DAYS public notice. by advertisement in the afore
said of the time and place of meeting to be held by the
stock oders for the election of President and managers
ana the organization of the corporation; provided that
it shall not be necessary to the organization of the
said corporation that the whole amount of one thousand
shares shall he subscribed at the closing of the books
hut that the meeting for the election Of President and
managers shall he held and the organization take place.
l the NHon proceed to the exercise of the powers
"rhy cuule. al on it, ii two hundred and fifty shares
,..a bc found to have been subscribed and paid
in Mt the closing of the books aforesaid and in the
event of the first subscriptions falling short the entire
,,,ta al have President ms
may from time time at their pleasure reopen the said
books until the entire capital shall be subscribed and
for the purpose carrying on the business of the said
corporation there shall he elected by the stockholders
President and five managers, who shall have all the pow
of the said corporation the first election to be held
the time designated by the said commissioners and all
subsequent elections the first Monday in November in
each year. at which elections the stockholders may vote
in person by proxy in case of failure to hold an cleo
ton any time, the persons then in Office shall hold
over until new election takes place.
src g. And he 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 soop navigation, such boom booms
with piers may be necessary for the purpose of stop
ping and securing logs masts, spais boards and other
lumber floating the said river and also the erecting
constructing and maintaining Of such side or branch
blooms may be necessary for the purpose; provided
that such side branch booms shall not extend the
main channel of the river beyond the point where the
is six feet in depth at low tide; and pro-
vded also that boom shall be constructed to in
terrupt the navigation said river and the side branch
boos above mentioned may he constructed and located
at any place between the point above esnated for the
main boom or booms and Principle and Swan creeks ;
provided there shall be boom constructed from Coo
leys Point and Point Concord the west side of the rv
or across the Ferry channel between Port Deposit in
Cecil county and Lapdum in Hartford county and from
the Maryland Canal TO Pisces or Deep Water Point on
ing any place used such shall be condemned for
the Of said company shall it be lawful for said
company, by the erection use of any boom booms
or any works appurenant thereto by the acCumula
ton logs masts spars or other lumber to obsruct in
any manner any channel by which ngress to- and egress
from auch lnpliupH Thar hat
boom booms, pier or piers, any fixtures apper
tanning thereto shall be constructed used any
wise impede obstruct the navigation of the Susque
hanna river, any of its tributaries, to infringe
injure in any the rights and privileges of the
owners or possessors of any fishery shore
property either the main land orislands any other
property real personal and that said company shall
be liable for and pay all damages direct or consequential
that may be done to private property by reason of the
erection, maintenance use of said boom booms
pier piers, any works appurtenane thereto said
damages be determined and ascertained by Jury of
condemnation provided in section four which said jury
shall he summoned to ascertain and the amount of
damages at the instance OF either the boom company
the of the property claimed to be injured de-
precacd in value and in all cases where private of
property feeling themselves aggreved injured in their
property may demandand require jury to be summoned
10 ascertain the damage or injury to property 80 claimed
be injured and where the amount assessed by the
jury in amount the or less than that rendered by
the corporato then the Judge of the Circuit Court Of
tho county within which the property lies shall deter
inc which Of the parties shall pay all the costs attend
ant the sunmonng of the jury and the performance
of the duties entrusted to them said boom or booms
shall be constructed to permit the safe passage
RATS and boats through the same when required in the
navigation of the said river and it shall be the duty of
the said corporation to the open spans that be
left for that purpose to be carefully guarded and watched
to catce and all logs, masts, spars timber
boards other lumber that may he adrift said river
and the said corporation shall from time TO time, and as
such logs masts spars timber boards and other
lumber can he 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 cacdfor upon payment the
hereinafter provided shall
mitted to cucumber said boom booms any of them
by occupying the same or any part thereof with RATS,
either of logs boards other lumber without the per-
mission of the said corporations for 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 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
the said corporation shall have lien upon the materials
doomed, well right of action at law against the
thereof; and all logs other lumber that may be
secured ithe said boom and RATED therefrom shall be
counted by dnterested parties and any logs boards
other lumber I've doomed secured as aforesaid and no
person shall appear claim the and pay the bOomage
thereon within fifteen days thereafter it shall be lawful
for the sad corporation after advertising the in
each the counties of Hartford and Cecil for six
sve weeks describing the marks thereon any there be-
if appears to claim the and pay the boom
age to dispose of the at public auction for cash and
the sad corporation shall keep accurate record and de-
scrpon of the property sold, and shall hold the pro-
ceeds of such sale, after deducng the boomage and
penses for the of the property sod for year.
after which, no has appeared and received the
money in the interval oneourth 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 other lumber doomed and secured, which
have marks by which they can he Identified the
may be sold at public auction, in the aforesaid
and the proceeds may be retained by the said corpo-
ration and all persons sending logs lumber of any
kind down the said river to be doomed in the boom
said corporation shall previously transmit by mail the
Office of the said corporation az Port Deposit description
of the marks which they intend use and the quantity
to be sent by them respectively to enable the said
corporation to identify and the same under
atty nfhty dollars, which shall be lien upon the logs
other lumber Of the person neglecting to forward
statement of the marks and quantity aforesaid and il
thall he the dy Of the party sending logs other lum
Der down the said river to be boomed to drive the
Iear thr rafting place the condition of tho boom
will permit and should he fail to do so, and the be
done by te said corporation, the expenses of doing
snail be added to the boonage, and be in like
lien upon the lumber and before the said corporation
delivering logs boards other lumber out
said boom they shall give ten days notice of their inten
ton so to do in more newspapers published in
Hartford and Cecil counties respectively, calling
npon heowners of lumber within the boom to
take charge thereof when delivered outside
oft; and should the owner of the logs boards
or other lumber which has been delivered from
the boom not appear TO claim the same within
twenty-four hours thereafter the said corpora