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DRIFT LOGS. [ART. — .
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year, daily for one week, in one or more newspapers of
the place where said company is located ; and if any
company, as aforesaid, shall fail to make the required
return of its condition within the time herein desig-
nated, or to make the publication thereof within the
month of March aforesaid, the said company shall be
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Penalty for
failure.
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liable to a penalty of fifty dollars for each omission for
every day thereafter until the return shall have been
rendered or the publication made as required; said
penalty to be payable into the treasury of the state,
and recoverable in like manner as other fines and
penalties.
Approved and in force April 4, 1870.
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ARTICLE —.
Drift Logs.
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1. Claimant of drift logs not to remove
without paying owner of shore.
2. Owner of shore to advertise.
3. Owner of shore may sell.
4. Responsible for proceeds.
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5. Additional compensation to owner of
shore,
6. Penalty for removing before advertise-
ment.
7. Penalty for removing after advertise-
ment.
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1870, c. 229 entitled "an act for the protection of the owners of land bordering upon
the Chesapeake bay and its tributaries," enacts the. following and repeals all acts
inconsistent therewith:
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1870, c. 229, s 1.
Claimant or
drift logs not
to remove with-
out paying own.
er of shore.
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SEC. 1. All persons claiming logs cast by wind and
tide upon any shore bordering upon the Chesapeake
bay and its tributaries, are hereby prohibited from
removing the same without the payment to the owner
of said shore of the sum of twenty-five cents (25)
for each log so removed.
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Ibid s 2
Owner of shore
to advertise.
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2. The owner of any shore upon which logs are so
cast, may advertise such logs by one insertion each
week for three successive weeks in some newspaper
published in the state of Maryland, of a public notice,
calling upon the owner of said logs to remove them,
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