346 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

"WHABVES AND WHARFAGE.

944. The mayor and city council shall not collect or impose any
tax, duty, toll or wharfage upon any goods, wares or merchan-
dise, or other articles for passing the same over any of the public
wharves within the said city, but the said corporation may regu-
late by ordinance the time during which any goods, wares, mer-
chandise or other articles may remain on said public wharves, or
the time which the vessels, boats or scows taking in or dis-
charging such goods, wares or merchandise, shall remaia at said
wharves.

945. The mayor and city council may regulate, establish and
collect, for the use of the city, such rate of wharfage as they may
think reasonable of and from all vessels resorting to or laying at,
landing, depositing or transporting goods or articles other than
the productions of this State on any wharf belonging to the
city, or any public wharf in the said city other than wharves
belonging to or rented by the State, and that part of Pratt street
wharf reserved for the use of the State.

WITNESSES.

946. Witnesses attending any of the courts of Baltimore city
shall be entitled to fifty cents a day.

WOOD.

947. The clerk of the Court of Common Pleas may issue
licenses to retail and huckster wood on any of the wharves in
said city other than city property, upon the payment of one
hundred dollars, for the use of the State.

948. Not more than two persons shall be included in any one
license, and the names of both shall be expressed therein, and
such license shall be annually renewed.

949. No person shall retail or huckster wood on any wharf in
the said city as aforesaid without a license, and any person so
offending shall be fined one hundred dollars, one-half for the use
of the State and the other half for the use of the person who
shall prosecute for the same.