The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-04-15
OFFICIAL.
Published April Z, 1882.
CHAPTER 1856.


AN ACT to authorize John Z. Glover Isaac II
Wing and VIM IL. PhippS, their heirs or as
sign, TO erect, maintain and keep up a dam
across the Totogaucause river i'll Douglas
County, Wisconsin.
The people ofthe State of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l. John +. Glover Isaac H. Wing and
VIM. Ii. Phipps, their heirs or assigns are hereby
authorized TO erect, maintain and keep up Il dam
across the Totogaticanse river on section eleven
1l) in township forty-thre tl3y north of range
QoJ west. in Douglas county Wisconsin provid-
ed that such dam shall not raise the water TO
exceed twelve tl2) feet: provided further, and
the right to maintain said dam or To erect and
maintain the same is upon the express condition
that the parties hereinaboVe named, their heirs
or assigns, now own or shall acquire by purchase
or lease the land upon which said dam is or is to
be erected and maintained.
Section ,. The aforesaid Glover, Wing and
PhlppS, their heirs or assigns shall build suitable
slides in said dam for running logs, timber and
lumber over the same, and shall keep the same
III repair. The same shall be kept open at all
times when the river Is at a driving stage, and
there are logs. timber or lumber 10 ran over said
dam, and when ii is not necessary u hold the
water back for the purpose of driving or flooding
logs, timber or lumber below the said dam. for
which purpose flood gates shall be kept iii repair,
and built III such manner as TO be shut or open,
as the case may require, to food the said log,
lumber or timber.
Section ). The aforesaid persons, their heirs or
assigns, shall enjoy the privileges granted in this
act for the period Of fifteen years.
Section 4. When the aforesaid persons their
heirs or assigns, shall have completed said dam
as aforesaid they are hereby authorized and en-
powered to demand, receive and collect from the
owners Of all logs timber and lumber passing
over such slides, or driven by the aid OF said
dam, compensation for keeping up and
maintaining such dam. the sum OF six (6 cents
pr thousand feet, board measure. the amount to
be aSCe .tained by the scale upon the landing in
woods, if there be one if not in any other prac-
ticable way; and the aforesaid persons their
heirs and assigns shall have lien all logs.
timber and lumber run over said dam driven
by the aid thereof, until the charges aforesaid
shall be fully paid, which lien may be enforced
in the same manner as the lien of lab0rerS on
logs, except as to the time for filing the petition
for said lien which may. under the provisions of
this act. be fled atany time within six months
after the last of the logs OF any mark shall have
passed over said slides OF been driven by the AID
Of said dam provided. that said Glover. Wing
and Phipps shall at any time comply with the
provisions of section Of this act, and section
1877, revised statutes Of 1878.
Section 5. The control ofsail dam, The slides
and gates of the same. shall he:oug to the said
Glover Wing and Phpps. their heirs assigns.
and be under their exclusive control subject
always 10 the provisions Of section OF this net.
Section e. This act shah take effect and lie in
force from and after It's passage and publication.
NoTE BY THE SECgETARYFOF STATF.-The fore
going act having been presented 10 the governor
for his approval. aud not having been returned
by him to the house OF The legislature in which it
originated within tn" time prescribed 10y the con-
stitutIOn Of the state, has become a laY without
his approval ERNST e. TIMME,
March 23, 1882. Secretary Of state.