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
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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.
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Lien.
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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.
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Special con-
tracts
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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.
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When to ex-
cise powers.
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