702 STATE WHARFINGER AND WHARVES. [ART. 97.

any law or ordinance within said city, or may hereafter be esta-
blished by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.

5. He shall be vested with the same powers in regard to the
care of said wharves, or such part thereof as may be under his
care and direction, and the regulating of vessels and persons re-
sorting to and using them, and the collection of wharfage, as any
harbor master or other officer within the city of Baltimore.

6. He shall deposit monthly, in such banks as the Treasurer
shall designate, to the credit of the Treasurer, four-fifth part of
the amount of all moneys which he shall collect from time to time
for wharfage, retaining one-fifth as a compensation for collecting
the same.

7. He shall, on the first day of May and November in each
year, render upon oath to the Treasurer, an account of all
moneys collected by him for wharfage during the preceding half
year.

8. He shall take care of, and preserve from injury, all wharves
placed under his direction belonging to, or rented by, or for the
State, and shall have all necessary control of the same for that
purpose.

9. He may collect all wharfage accruing to the State in the
name of the State of Maryland before any justice of the peace
of said city.

10. He shall demand and collect for wharfage on all vessels
lying at or opposite to any of the public wharves in said city, a
tonnage duty of one cent per ton burthen for the first tier, two-
thirds of a cent per ton for the second tier, and half a cent per
ton for all vessels beyond the second tier, for each day or part
of a day they shall so lie or remain; and if any vessel laden
with wood shall so lie without landing any part of her cargo, no
duty other than the tonnage duty above specified shall in that
case be demanded by the State Wharfinger.

11. Whenever wood shall be landed on the wharves belonging
to the State, the wood inspector measuring the same shall forth-
with report to the State Wharfinger the number of cords so
landed, with the name of the vessel from which the same was
landed. Whenever lumber shall be landed on said wharves, the