ART. 12.] HABFOBD COUNTY. 629

TIKE WATER CANAL.

188. If any person shall wantonly open any gate, wicket or
lock of the Tide Water Canal, or wantonly break or injure any
lock, gate, wicket, embankment, wall, or other work appertain-
ing to said canal, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction shall be subject to such fine and imprison-
ment, or either, as the court before whom he may be tried shall,
in its discretion, impoBe, and shall also be adjudged to, pay all
such damages to the said Canal Company as the said company
may have sustained by the injury to its works.

. 189. If any person navigating said canal shall, take or destroy
any fence, rails, wood, timber, grain, grass, or any other thing
belonging to any person having the occupancy of any lands
along the line of the said canal, he shall pay the owner the full
value of the property destroyed, and shall also pay a penalty ®f
twenty dollars for each offence, to be recovered before a: jus-
tice of the peace, in the name of the person injured, as small
debts.

140. If any person navigating said canal shall turn his hoysea
orBnileBonanyofthe lands in the vicinity of said can,^, •wiitjfaqM.t
the consent of the owner or occupier of said land, he shall be
liable to the penalty imposed by the preceding section, to be
recovered in the same manner.

141. If any person shall carelessly or neglectfully break or
injure any lock, gate, wicket, embankment, wall, or other work
appertaining to said canal, he shall pay a sum equal to the
damage sustained by the company by such injury, to be reco-
vered by such company, if under one hundred dollars, before a
justice of the peace, or if over one hundred dollars, in the Circuit
Court for Harford county.

142. If any person shall anchor or place any vessel oc other
thing so near the outlet locks of said canal as; to obstruct or
impede the use of such outlet locks, or shall build or erect on or
against the tow path or embankment of said company, any
house, shed, wharf, or other fixture, he shall pay to the said
company twenty dollars for each offence, to be recovered as
small debts, and the said company, by its officers or agents, vxay
remove such obstructions or fixtures.