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283 The select committee to which was committed Bill to incorporate the Sugar Island Side Boom Company, reported the same without amendment; and a motion was made by Mr. Megquier to amend said Bill by adding the following section, to wit, Be it further enacted, that the Proprietors of the Penobscot Boom Corporation shall not be liable for the loss of logs belonging to those persons who may have requested their logs to be stopped at the Sugar Island Boom, and all persons wishing their logs stopped at the Sugar Island Boom shall make a request to the Proprietors thereof in writing on or before the first day of April in each year, and the same shall be delivered or a copy thereof to the Proprietors of the Penobscot Boom Corporation on demand, but this shall not authorize the Penobscot Boom Corporation to turn out any lumber which may come into their Boom without the consent of the owners thereof and they paying the Boomage. And the question of adopting said amendment being ordered to be taken by yeas and nays, was decided in the affirmative, as follows, to wit, Yeas - Messrs. Dunlap, Eastman, Emerson, Gibson, Goodwin, Groton, Hodgman, LIthgow, Megquier, Merrill, Scammon, and Webb - 12. Nays - Messrs. Boutelle, Bridgham. Burnham, Hunton, Smith, Sweat, Thayer and Thompson - 8. Said Bill was then passed to be engrossed as amended. Sent down for concurrence.