310 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

NAVIGATION.

798. The mayor and city council have power to provide for
the preservation of the navigation of the basin and Patapsco
River, within the limits of the city, and within four miles thereof,
and for cleaning and deepening the basin and docks, and for
regulating the stationing, anchoring and moving of vessels.

794. No person, his servant or slave, shall put or throw into
the Patapsco River, or any of the navigable branches thereof,
any earth, sand or dirt, or lay out on the beach or shore of said
river below common high water mark, any earth, sand or dirt,
unless such earth, sand or dirt be first well secured by stone
walls, dovetailed log pens or otherwise, so that no part thereof
may wash into said river or the navigable branches thereof.

795. Any person offending against the provisions of the last
preceding section, shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifteen dollars,
to be recovered before a justice of the peace, as in case of
small debts, one-half to the State and the other half to the
person who will sue for the same.

796. The mayor and city council shall have full power and
authority to make such rules, regulations and ordinances from
time to time, respecting the mooring and safe stationing of all
Vessels arriving in said port, as they shall deem necessary.

NUISANCES.

797. The mayor and city council have power to pass ordi-
nances to preserve the health of the city, to prevent and remove
nuisances, and to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases
within the city and within three miles of the same, and may
regulate the places for manufacturing soap and candles, the
erecting of slaughter houses and distilleries, and where every
other offensive trade is carried on.

798. They may, whenever any nuisance dangerous to the
health of the city shall exist in any street, lane or alley of the
city, and it shall be found necessary in order to the removal of
the same to have such street, lane or alley paved, order the
same to be paved, and may recover the amount expended in
paving the same, and the expenses of collection, from the owner
or owners of the property fronting thereon, in proportion to the