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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Company, and the costs in every such proceeding
shall be payable by such party against whom the
same may be adjudged by the Circuit Court of said
county ; provided, however, that no such damages
shall be recoverable unless proceedings therefor be
commenced within six months after the commence-
ment of such damages.

Hold lands
and chattels.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the said Company
be and it is authorized to purchase or lease, hold,
own, possess, and use such land and chattels as
may be necessary for the convenient exercise of the
powers conferred upon it by this Act, in addition
to such as it may require for the exercise of the
powers conferred upon it by its incorporation under
the General Law ; and the said Company may
agree with the owner or owners of any land that
may be necessary or convenient for the erection,
construction, repair or maintenance of any of the
works authorized by this Act, or if such agreement
cannot be made, because of any difference or in-
competency to contract, or because the owner may
be out of the County, then application may be
made to any Justice of the Peace and a jury sum-
moned, and the proceedings shall be in all respects
the same as are provided for the condemnation of
lands by the fourth Section of an Act passed at
the January session, 1867, of the General Assembly
of Maryland, Chapter 195, entitled "An Act to
incorporate the Cecil and Harford Counties Boom
Company."

Shall not
encumber.

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That no person shall
be permitted to encumber said boom or booms, or
any of them, or any of the works of said Company
on said river, by occupying, encumbering or choak-
ing the same with boards, logs, timber, lumber or
other material, without the consent of said Com-
pany, and the said Company shall be entitled to
catch and deliver to the owner or owners at the
mouth of the lowest of such boom or booms, all
logs, boards, timber and other material afloat or
adrift on said river, for which service it shall be
entitled to charge the owner or owners an amount
not exceeding one-tenth of the value of such
boards, lumber, logs, timber or other material at
the mouth of the Great Savage river, and also to
remove the same to some place of safety that the