The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-03-29

AN ACT define the right of parties engaged IN running
timber, and Tor other purposes
SECTION 1. Be at enacted By the Legiszu-
ture of the State of Mississippi, That if any
person or persons shall put or cause to be
put into any navigable river within, or upon
the boundary line Of this State, or into any
creek or stream within this State, or shall
have in any such river, creek or stream any
logs, lumber Or timber for any purpose, and
shall not make adequate provision and put
on sufficient force for driving or running the
same, or for breaking blocks or jams of such
logs, timber or lumber in or upon such river,
creek or stream, or shall for want OF ade-
-quate provision or want Of sufficient force,
allow such logs, timber or lumber to jam
or accumulate or form in blocks, thereby
obstructing the navigation of such river,
creek or stream, and thereby obstructing the
driving or running of logs OH such river,
creek or stream, then and in that event 1t
shall be lawful for any person or persons
having logs, timber or lumber in such river,
creek or stream, the driving and running OF
which is so prevented or obstructed, to cause
such block or jam to be broken, and such
logs, timber or lumber to be driven, doomed,
RATED or run at the expense OF the person
or persons owning such logs, timber or
lumber and such owner shall be liable to
to be broken, and such logs, timber or
lumber to be driven, doomed, RATED or
run, for all the costs and expenses thereof,
causing such blocks or jams to be broken,
and for all the costs and expenses incurred
for driving, booming, rafting and running
such logs, timber or lumber, which shall be
and constitute a lien superior to all other
liens on said logs, timber or lumber, against
such owner, and all other persons who may
have actual notice thereof, for the inforce-
ment of which the party entitled as afore-
said to such lien shall be entitled to take
and retain possession of such logs, timber,
or lumber or so much thereof as may be
necessary to satisfy the amount of such
charges for breaking such jams or blocks
and for driving, booming, rafting and run
ming Of said logs, timber or lumber, and ex
penses and costs thereon, until the same
shall be satisfied and paid.
SEC. g. Be ii further enacted, That any
person or persons having lien upon logs,
timber or lumber, under the provisions of
the first section of this act, may proceed to
enforce the same by selling such timber
at public auction to the highest bidder, for
cash, upon giving at least twenty days
notice of the time, place and terms of sale
by posting notices thereof in three public
places in the county, where said sale shall
take place; provided, that the owner Of the
logs, so to be sold, shall have at least ten
days notice in writing of the time and place
of sale, and of the sum of money which
shall be due for the costs, charges and ex-
penses aforesaid. And the purchaser at
such sale shall, upon payment of the amount
bid by him. take such logs, timber or lumber
so purchased by him at such sale, free from
all liens or claims whatsoever.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That this
act take effect and be in force from and after
its passage.
Approved, February %, 1882