958 ESTRAYS——VESSELS ADBIFT——DRIFT-LOGS. [ART. 34:

1904, art. 34, sec. 8. 1888, art. 34, sec. 6. 1870, ch. 403. 1892, ch. 593.
8. Dorchester, Caroline, Garrett, Montgomery and Prince George's
counties are hereby excluded from the operation of the preceding
sections.*

Vessels Adrift.

Ibid. sec. 9. 1888, art. 34, sec. 9. 1860, art. 36, sec. 9. 1753, ch. 10, sec. 2.

9. When any person shall discover, take up and secure any flat
boat or other vessel driven from any place of mooring, landing, harbor
or river, or from any other vessel, he shall, within ten days thereafter,
give notice thereof to some justice of the peace for the county where
such flat boat or other vessel is taken up and secured, and the justice
shall deliver to the party giving such notice an advertisement describ-
ing in the beat manner the build and marks of such flat boat or vessel
and the name of such person and place of his abode, copies of which
advertisement the said party shall, within ten days after the date
thereof, cause to be set up in the most public places of the county, and
within thirty days after such date procure the same to be inserted in
some daily newspaper published in the city of Baltimore.

Ibid. sec. 10. 1888, art. 34, sec. 10. 1860, art. 36, sec. 10. 1753, ch. 10, sec. 2.

10. Upon proof of property by the oath of the owner of such flat
boat or other vessel, or otherwise, before a justice of the peace, and upon
payment of reasonable costs and charges for the same, the person so
taking up and securing the same shall deliver the said flat boat or other
vessel to the owner thereof.

Ibid. sec. 11. 1888, art. 34, sec. 11. 1860, art. 36, sec. 11. 1753, ch. 10, sec. 3.

11. If any person shall take and secure any flat boat or other vessel
driven from any place of mooring, landing or harbor, or from any
other vessel, and shall fail to comply with the provisions of the two
preceding sections, he shall forfeit to the owner thereof the sum of ten
dollars, to be recovered as small debts before a justice of the peace of
the county where the party charged may reside.

Drift Loss.

Ibid. sec. 12. 1888, art. 34, sec. 12. 1870, ch. 229, sec. 1.

12. All persons claiming logs cast by wind and tide upon any shore
bordering upon the Chesapeake bay and its tributaries are prohibited
from removing the same without the payment to the owner of said shore
of the sum of twenty-five cents for each log so removed.

This and the following sections are constitutional and valid. Henry v
Roberts, 50 Fed. 902.

*Also all other counties for which a special inconsistent local law exists.