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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 3. Se it further enacted, That the act of

eighteen hundred and seventy-six, chapter fifty-seven,

Inconsistent
acis repealed.

entitled "An Act for the protection of partridges,
rabbits, and to prevent trespass on private property,"

and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent with

this act be and the same are hereby repealed in go

far as the same relates to Kent county.

Approved March 30, 1882.

Chapter 149.

AN ACT for the protection of the aids to naviga-

tion established by the authority of the United

States Lighthouse Board within the State of

Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assem-

bly of the State of Maryland, That any person or

Not to moor

persons who shall moor any vessel or vessels, of any

vessel.

kind or name whatsoever, or any raft or any part of a

raft, to any buoy, beacon or day mark placed in the

waters of Maryland by the authority of the United

States Lighthouse Board, or shall in any manner hang

on with any vessel or raft, or part of a raft, to any such

buoy, beacon or day mark, or shall wilfully remove,

damage or destroy any such buoy, beacon or day

mark, or shall cut down, remove, damage or destroy

any beacon or beacons erected on land in this State

by the authority of the said United States Light

house Board, or through unavoidable accident run

down, drag from its position, or in any way injure

any buoy, beacon or day mark, as aforesaid, and

shall fail to give notice as soon as practicable of hav-

ing done so to the lighthouse inspector of the dis-

trict in which said buoy, beacon or day mark may

be located, or to the collector of the port, or if in

charge of a pilot, to the collector of port from

which he comes, shall for every such offence be

deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-

tion thereof before any court of competent jurisdic-

Pine or impris-
onment.

tion shall be punished by a fine not to exceed two
hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not to exceed