1867, New Jersey. Supreme Court,New Jersey Law Reports, volume31, page20:
It is further insisted that there was evidence of an implied contract, inasmuch as it was proved that the defendants had, before that time, paid a bill presented by the plaintiff forshorage for other rafts, before then anchored on the same flats.
1890, Wisconsin. Supreme Court, edited by Abram Daniel Smith and Philip Loring Spooner,Wisconsin reports: cases determined in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, volume76, page78:
that March 7, 1887, the Browns and Anderson, by warranty deed, conveyed to the Pelican Boom Company, its successors and assigns, "all theirshorage, riparian, marginal, and flowage rights and easements[…]
1611, Randle Cotgrave,A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues:
DROICT DE RIVAGE:Shorage, or Boatage; the Custome, or Toll for wine, or other wares, put vpon, or brought from, the water, by boats
1832, Jean-François Marmontel,Belisarius: A tale[1]:
The emperors laid a duty upon urine, dust, ordure, dead bodies, smoke, air, &c. There were rights of the turf, the highway,shorage, duties upon carriages, beasts of burden, &c
1890,The New York supplement, volume 7, West Publishing Company, page134:
Defendant pleaded recoupment for damage to freight, and forshorage.
1895,Congressional serial set, United States. Government Printing Office, page177:
The cost of getting logs from the stump to the various sawmills, including cutting, hauling, driving, boomage,shorage, tolls, and other expenses, is, on an average, from $8 to $8.50 per 1000 feet. The average cost of stumpage is $2
1913, United States. Army. Corps of Engineers,Water terminal and transfer facilities, page537:
the wharfage orshorage rates are 10 cents per cord of wood, 10 cents per thousand feet of lumber, and 1 cent per tie, and these rates do not include handling
