Pennsylvania Statutes Title 32 P.S. Forests, Waters and State Parks § 560. Preceding acts not to apply to timber lost by extraordinary freshets

It is the true intent and meaning of the several acts of this general assembly, regulating the taking up of lumber or logs adrift in the west branch of the Susquehanna and its tributaries, that none of the provisions thereof are applicable to squared timber taken from landings or moorings, or from the banks of the said streams, within the counties of Elk, Cambria, Cameron, Clearfield, Indiana, Centre, Clinton or Lycoming, by extraordinary freshets or ice floods, and driven or floated down the said streams thereby; but that all of the said squared timber so as aforesaid taken adrift and lodged or found upon the banks within the bed or on lands adjoining said west branch, or its tributaries, at any point on the same, shall be as fully, to all intents and purposes, the property of those out of whose possession the same was taken by said freshets or floods, at the place at which it may be found, as it was when lying at the landings from which it was taken away; and no claim for salvage, bank leave, or labor expended thereon shall be of any validity whatever in regard thereto; but the parties owning the same, or their agents, may enter on the said land, adjoining the said streams, or within the bed or banks thereof, and remove the same, by paying such damages as may accrue to the owners of the land on which said timber may be found.