682 ESTRAYS—VESSELS ADRIFT—DRIFT LOGS. [ART. 34.

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.

Drifts Logs.
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
BO removed.

Ibid. sec. 2.

13. 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, after the payment of twenty-five cents for each log so re-
moved, and the cost of said advertisement in addition thereto.

Ibid. sec. 3.

14. If the said logs are not removed after such publication,
the owner of any shore may sell such logs to the highest bidder,
by giving notice of his intention so to do by an additional adver-
tisement for three successive weeks, as aforesaid, mentioning the
time and place of sale

Ibid. sec. 4.

15. Any owner of a shore so selling shall be responsible for-
the excess of such sale over the sum of twenty-five cents for each
log sold, and the cost of the aforesaid advertisements and sale.

Ibid. sec. 5.

16. Nothing contained in the four preceding sections shall be-
construed to deny to the owner of any shore a right to an addi-
tional compensation for special damages, such as the destruction,
of fences, the lodging of logs upon cultivated fields, or other

similar injuries.

Ibid, sec 6.

17. Any person removing logs from a shore without comply-
ing with the provisions of the five preceding sections, shall be