THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 885

owner or owners may call on the Company to ob- tain the same, and all expenses of such removal and storage, as well as the charge for the service
aforesaid, shall be a lien upon the said logs, boards, lumber, timber and other material paramount to all others ; and if any logs, boards, lumber, tim- ber or other material so in custody of said Com- pany be not called fur and actually taken away by the owner or owners, and all charges and expenses paid within thirty days after the same shall reach the lowest boom of said Company, the said Com- pany shall be at liberty to sell and dispose of the same at public auction, and after deducting the expenses of sale, and all claims of said Company upon the articles so sold, to pay over the surplus to the owner or owners, if ascertained ; but if such owner or owners be unknown, or if he, she, it or they refuse to receive such surplus, then the said Company shall hold the same ibr the space of one year, and at the expiration of such period, un- less such owner or owners appear and receive such surplus, one-fourth thereof shall be retained by the Company and the remainder paid to the County Commissioners for the use of the county schools.	Lien.
Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That the Company may make special contracts, upon such terms as it may deem best, for the use of its works by any person or persons, but any person or persons may notify the Company, ten days in advance of the pending of any logs, boards, lumber, timber, or other floating material, of a character to be passed through said works, and such persons shall then be entitled to have the same passed, secured and delivered upon the terms and charges provided in the preceding section, from which an abatement, however, of ten per cent, shall be made of all the said logs, boards, timber, lumber or other material referred to in this section be received by the owners immediately upoa its reaching the lowest of the Company's works.	Special con- tracts
Sec. 6. And be it enacted. That the said Com- pany shall not be entitled to exercise the powers and privileges conferred upon it by this Act until it shall have acquired at least five thousand acres of land upon the Great Savage river.	When to ex- cise powers.