NAVIGATION.

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twenty dollars for every such offence, one-half to the use of the
state, and the other half to him or them that shall inform or sue
for the same, to be recovered in the counties aforesaid, by action
of debt, before any justice of the peace, in the same manner as
is prescribed by law for the recovery of small debts out of
court.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That so much of any law of tbi§
state as may be repugnant to or inconsistent with the provi-
sions of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed.

NAVIGATION.
AN ACT for the preservation of the Navigation of the North-west Branch
of Nanticoke River, in Dorchester County. — 1807, ch. 155.

Repeal.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly, that
the navigation of the north-west branch of the said river is
much injured by the erection of wears and hedges in and upon
the same ; therefore,

Preamble.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland^
That all wears and hedges already made, or hereafter to be
made, in the channel of that part of the said branch of the said
river which lies between the channel of the main river and the
place on the aforesaid branch or river called the Walnut
Landing, so as to stop the passage of boats or vessels, or in
any manner injure the navigation of the said branch or river,
shall be deemed, and are hereby declared, nuisances, and
may be by any person taken out of said branch or river, and
destroyed as such.

Wears
made be-
tween chan-
nel of river
and the
Walnut
Landing
declared
nuisances.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That no person or persons shall,
after the first day of March next, put, place or make, any wear
or hedge in the channel or mouth of the said branch or river,
so as to stop the said passage of boats or vessels, or in any
manner injure the navigation thereof, under the penalty of
twenty dollars for every such offence, to be recovered before
a single magistrate, in the same manner as small debts are re-
covered, and appropriated, one-half to the informer or person
who will sue for or prosecute to effect for the same, the other
half to the use of Dorchester county, any law to the contrary
notwithstanding.

AN ACT for the preservation of the Navigation of a Branch of Nanticoke
River, called North-west Fork, in Dorchester County.— 1818, ch. 103.

Penalty on
persons
erecting
them.

WHEREAS, it is represented to this general assembly, that
wears and hedges have of late been erected in and across the
North-west fork branch of the said river, in Dorchester county,
from the Chimney landing up to the North-west fork bridge, to
the great injury of the navigation of said river ; therefore,
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Preamble,