1370 ARTICLE 34.

Vessels Adrift.

An. Code, sec. 9. 1904, sec. 9. 1888, 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 describing in the best man-
ner 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.

An. Code, sec. 10. 1904, sec. 10. 1888, 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 pay-
ment 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.

An. Code, sec. 11. 1904, sec. 11. 1888, 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 Logs.

An. Code, sec. 12. 1904, sec. 12. 1888, 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.

An. Code, sec. 13. 1904, sec. 13. 1888, sec. 13. 1870, ch. 229, sec. 2.

13. The owner of any shore upon which logs are so cast may adver-
tise such logs by one insertion each week for three successive weeks in
some newspaper published in the State of Maryland of a public notice call-
ing upon the owner of said logs to remove them, after the payment of
twenty-five cents for each log so removed and the cost of said advertisement
in addition thereto.