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3. In case of the neglect of any person to comply with the provisions 

 of the preceding section, it shall be lawful for any other person or persons 

 desiring to float, run or drive logs in, upon or down such water, and whose 

 logs would be thereby obstructed^ to cause such jams to be broken and 

 such logs to be cleared from the banks and shores of such water, and to be 

 floated, run and driven in, upon and down such water. 



4. The person or persons causing such jams to be broken or such logs 

 to be cleared, floated, run or driven, pursuant to the last preceding section, 

 shall do the same with reasonable economy and despatch, and shall take 

 reasonable care not to leave logs on the banks or shores, and shall have a 

 lien upon the logs in the jam or so cleared, floated, run or driven for the 

 reasonable charges and expenses of breaking the jams and the clearing, 

 floating, driving, running, booming and keeping possession of such logs, 

 and may take and keep possession of such logs or so much thereof as may 

 be reasonably necessary to satisfy the amount of such charges and expenses, 

 pending the decision by arbitration as hereinafter provided for. The per- 

 son taking possession of logs under this section shall use all reasonable 

 care not to take such logs beyond the place of their original destination, 

 if known, but may securely boom and keep possession of the same at or 

 above such place. The owner or person controlling such logs, if known, 

 shall be forthwith notified of their whereabouts, and if satisfactory security 

 be given for the amount of such charges and expenses, possession of the 

 logs shall be given up. 



5. When the logs of any person upon or in any water in this Province, 

 or the banks or shores of such water, are so intermixed with logs of another 

 person or persons, that the same cannot be conveniently separated for the 

 purpose of being floated in, upon, or down, such water, then the several 

 persons owning or controlling the intermixed logs, shall respectively make 

 adequate provisions, and put on a fair proportion of the men required to 

 break jams of such intermixed logs, and to clear the same from the banks 

 and shores of such water with reasonable despatch, and to float, run and drive 

 the same in, upon and down such water, and the costs and expenses thereof 

 shall be borne by the parties in such proportions as they may agree upon, 

 and in default of agreement as may be determined by arbitration as here- 

 inafter provided for. 



6. In case of neglect of any person to comply with the provisions of the 

 last preceding section, it shall be lawful for any other person or persons 

 whose logs are intermixed, to put on a suflicient number of men to supply 

 ihe deficiency and break jams of such intermixed logs, and to clear the 

 same from the banks and shores of such water, and to float, run and drive 

 all such intermixed logs in, upon and down such water. 



7. The person or persons supplying such deficiency and causing such 

 jams to be broken, or such intermixed logs to be cleared, floated, run or 

 driven pursuant to the last preceding section, shall do the same with rea- 

 sonable economy and despatch, and shall take reasonable care not to leave 

 legs on the banks or shores, and shall have a lien upon the logs owned or 

 controlled by the person guilty of such neglect, for a fair proportion of the 

 charges and expenses of breaking the jams, and the clearin<r, floatinor, run- 

 ning, driving, booming and keeping possession of such intermixed logs; 

 and may take and keep possession of such logs, or so much thereof, as may 

 be reasonably necessary to satisfy the amount of such fair proportion of 

 charges and expenses pending the decision by arbitration as hereinafter 

 provided for. The person taking possession of logs under this section shall 

 nse all reasonable care not to take such logs beyond the place of their original 

 destination, if known, but may securely boom and keep possession of the 

 same at or above such place. The owner or person controlling such logs, 



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