River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-05-05
Published April IL, 1871
CHAPTER 252.

AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and
twenty of the revised statutes, entitled of riv-
and floats
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l. Section one thousand six hundred
of the revised statutes, being part OF chapter
one hundred and twenty of the revised statutes
entitled of rivers and floats. is hereby amended
so as to read as follows: Section 1900. Whenever
any logs timber boards or planks IN RATS
otherwise shall be drifted upon any island in any
of the waters of this state, or upon the hank or
shore of such waters lands adjacent thereto,
the owner thereof his agents or servants may, at
any time within eighteen months remove the
same on paying or rendering to the owner or
occupant Of said land the reasonable damages
caused by the removal or non-removal of said
logs, timber, boards or planks, and the expense
OF advertising the same. And IN case 1t Is not
practicable to remove said logs, timber boards or
planks without passing over other lands than
those upon which the same may be situated, then
the owner thereof shall have the privilege TO
make the necessary roads over sald lands, and to
pass over the same in removing said logs timber
boards or planks, on rendering TO the owner or
occupant of said lana the reasonable damages
caused thereby. If the owner shall not remove
said logs timber, boards or planks within said
time, and paw said damages, unless the owner OF
occupant Of said land shall otherwise agree, then
said owner or occupant OF said land may remove
said logs timber boards or planks. and shall
have lien on the same for twice the costs of re-
moval and said damages. and may sell a sufficient
amount of the same to satisfy said lien and costs
without action on giving twenty days notice OF
such sale by posting up three notices Of such sale
in three of the most public places in the town
where said logs timber, boards or panks, are sit
uated; provided that at least six months previous
to the expiration of said eighteen months he shall
have given notice TO the owner thereof If known
to remove the same. with a description of the
marks thereon, If any, the kind and quantity
thereof and the place where located. or II the
owner is unknown, shall haye published sueh no
tice in some newspaper published in said county
ifthere be any If not then in an adjoining county
once week for six successive weeks, AMI pro
vided further that if the owner occupant Of the
land desires an earlier removal Of such logs tim
Der, boards or planks. than Is hereinbef0re pro
vided for such owner or occupant may upon first
giving said six Isl months notice in the manner
aforesaid at any time during said period Of eisJ.
teen months remove or cause said logs. timber
boards or planks TO be removed to such sesura
point In the same stream from which they maA
have fioated TO or upon said land the same can
be the most economically done and such land
owner or occupant shall hare a lien as hereinbe
ford provided for twice the cost Of such removal
and the damages hereiBbef0re mentioned and
NAV sell a sufficient amount thereof to satisfy
said lien and costs az aforesaid in the manner
and upon giving the notice hereinbetere provide
for whoever shall convert TO hi= own Rsc
without the consent Of the owner thereof any d
such logs timber, boards fT planks except a.
provided in this chapter shall be liable to thu
owner in treble the amount Of damages caused
thereby