810 .SOMERSET COUNTY. [ART. 19.

splits, bad sawing, waney edges, rots or dotes, as in their judg-
ment may be just and proper.

71. They shall charge and receive for each one hundred feet
of lumber they may inspect, two cents; and four cents for each
cord of fire wood they may measure, to be paid by the purchaser,
and on his neglect or refusal to pay the same, the inspector may
collect it as other debts.

NAVIGATION.

72. No person shall unload or throw out the ballast of any
boat or vessel in the navigable rivers or creeks in said county,
or make or keep any weirs or hedges in said rivers or creeks so
as to injure or obstruct the navigation thereof.

78. Any person who shall be convicted before a justice of the
peace for said county of throwing out the ballast of any boat or
vessel in said waters in such manner as may obstruct or tend to
injure the navigation thereof, or prevent boats or vessels from
lying alongside of the wharves; or who shall be convicted of
keeping or making any weirs or hedges in the channels of said
rivers or creeks, or of throwing stones, shells, gravel or other
things into said rivers and creeks so as to obstruct and injure
the navigation, shall forfeit and pay a sum, in the discretion of
the justice, not exceeding fifty dollars, one-half to the informer
and the other half to the county; this and the preceding section
not to apply to the offences mentioned in the 79th section of
this article.

74. All persons owning, commanding, or having charge of any
boat or vessel navigating said rivers and creeks, shall charge
and command all persons belonging to or engaged in the service
of such boat or vessel to be careful in the discharge of its ballast,
so that section 72 of this article shall not be violated; and if it
shall appear that the provisions of said section have been vio-
lated from the negligence of the owner, commander, or person
having charge of any boat or vessel, such person may be fined as
aforesaid.

75. It shall be the duty of every justice of the peace of said
county, whenever he shall have knowledge or shall be credibly
informed of any violation of section 72 of this article, to issue a
warrant in the name of the State against the person charged,