The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-04-15
Published April :. 1852.
CHAPTER IS3

AN ACT to authorize John E Glover, !saac H.
Wing and VIM. H. Phipps their heirs or as
signs, TO erect, maintain and keep up 4 dam
across the loto3atlcase river, IL Douglas county,
Wisconsin.
The people of the State Of Wisconsin. represented
III senate and assembly, do enact rs follows:
Section !. John L. Glover Isaac II. Wing and
VIM. Fl. Phpps their heirs or assigns are hereby
authorized to erect maintain and keep up q dam
across the Totoga;icanse river. section one IL
IN township forty three t45) north. of range ten
tl0) west, III Douglas county, Wisconsin; pro-
vided that such dam shall not raise the wafer to
exceed twelve (l2l, feet provided further. and
the right to maintain said dam, If now erected.
or u erect and maintain the same. is upon the
express condition that the parties herein above
named their heirs Or assigns, now own or shall
acquire by purchase or lease the land upon which
said dam is OF Is TO be erected or maintained.
Section ,. The aforesaid Glover Wing and
PhippS their heirs or assigns, shall build Suitab G
slides in said dam for running logs, timber and
lumber over the same, and shall keep the same
in 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 to run over said
dam and when II Is not necessary to hold the
water back for the purpose OF driving OF flooding
logs. timber or lumber below the said dam, for
which purpose lood-gates shall be kept in repair.
and butt III such manner as 10 be shut or open, as
the case may require, to food the said logs, tim
Der or lumber
Section g. The aforesaid persons, their heirs or
assigns shall enjoy the privileges granted i'll this
act for the period Of fifteen years
Section t. When the aforesaid persons their
HclFS OF aSSIlSB Stlatl nave dam as
aforesaid, they are hereby authorized and en-
powered 20 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.
as compensation for keeping up and maintain
ing such dam, the sum OF six cents per thousand
feet board measure, the amOuntto be nScertained
by scale upon the landing in the woods, if there
be one; If not, in any other practicable way; and
the aforesaid person. their heirsand assigns shall
have a lien on all logs timber and lumber run
over said dam or driven by the aid thereof until
the charges aforesaid shall be fully paid, which
lien may be enforced in the same manner as the
OF laburcrs en- logs except as to the time for filing
the petition for said lien, which may under the
provisions OF this act, be filed any time within
six months after the last of the logs Of any mark
shall have passed over said slides or be driven by
the aid OF said dam provided. that said Glover,
Wing and Phipps shall at all times comply with
the provisions of section Of this act and section
1877 of the revised statutes of 1878.
Section ,. The control of said dam, the slides
and gates of the same, shall belong to the said
Glover, Wing 4 Phipps, their heirs orassgns, and
be under their exclusive control. subject always
10 the provisions of section of this act.
Section 6. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
NOTE BY THE SECRETARY OF STArE-The fore
going act having been presented to the governor
Tor his approval and not having been returned BY
HIM 10 the house of the legislature in which it
originated, within the time prescribed by the con
sutution Of the state has become law without
his approval. ERNST G.. TIMNE
MaTch %, 1857 Secretary of State.