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duties entrusted to them; said boom or booms
shall be so constructed as to permit the safe pas-
sage of rafts 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
cause the open spans that may be left for that pur-
pose to be carefully guarded and watched so as to
catch and secure all logs, masts, spars, timber,
boards or other lumber that may be adrift on said
river, and the said corporation shall from time to
time, and as soon as such logs, masts spars, tim-
ber, boards and other lumber can be secured, faith-
fully deliver the game to the owner or owners
thereof, at mouth of main boom, in boom pock-
ets furnished by the owner of said logs or other
lumber when called for, upon payment of the
boomage hereinafter provided, and no person shall
be permitted to encumber said boom or booms, or
any of them, by occupying the same or any part
thereof with rafts, either of logs, boards or other
lumber, without the permission of the said corpo-
ration; for the collecting, booming and delivering
of the logs, boards or other lumber adrift on the
said river, as aforesaid, there shall be allowed a
boomage of twenty-five cents each for all logs
and timber, masts and spars, twenty feet and un-
der in length, and fifty cents each for all over
twenty feet long, for which boomage, and other
expenses, should there be any, the said corporation
shall have a lien upon the materials boomed, as
well as a right of action at law against the owner
thereof; and all logs or other lumber that may be
secured in. the said boom and rafted therefrom
shall be counted by disinterested parties; • and
if any logs, boards, or other lumber be boomed
and secured as aforesaid, and no person shall ap-
pear to claim the same and pay the boomage
thereon within fifteen days thereafter, it shall be
lawful for the said corporation, after advertising
the same in each of the counties of Harford and
Cecil for six successive weeks, describing the marks
thereon, if any there be, if no owner appears to
claim the same and pay the boomage, to dispose
of the same at public auction for cash, and the
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How booms
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