76 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 32]

new section is hereby added to Article 4 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "City of Baltimore," sub-title
"Miscellaneous Local Laws," under the heading "Harbor, Docks
and Wharves," as amended by the Act of 1908, Chapter 170,
said new section to be numbered 469, and to follow section 468;
and that sections 828 and 829 of Article 4 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland, title "City of Baltimore," sub-title
"Miscellaneous Local Laws," be and they are hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, so as to read as follows:

(8) Harbors, Docks and Wharves.

To provide for the preservation of the navigation of the
Patapsco River and tributaries, including the establishment of
lines throughout the entire length of said Patapsco River and
tributaries, beyond which lines no piers, bulkheads, wharf, pil-
ings, structures, obstructions or Extensions of any character
may be built, erected, constructed, made or extended; to provide
for improving, cleaning and deepening said river and tribu-
taries, and the removal therefrom of anything detrimental to
navigation or health; to provide for and regulate the stationing,
anchoring and moving of vessels or other water craft, and to
prevent any material, refuse or matter of any kind from being
thrown into, deposited in or placed where the same may fall, or
be washed, into said river or tributaries; to make surveys or
charts of the Patapsco River and tributaries, and to ascertain
the depth and course of the channels of the same, and when
necessary, in its judgment, to affix buoys or water marks for
facilitating and rendering more safe the navigation thereof; to
erect and maintain and to authorize the erection and mainte-
nance of, and to make such regulations as it may deem proper,
respecting wharves, bulkheads, piers and piling, and the keeping
of the same in repair, so as to prevent injury to navigation or
health; to regulate the use of public wharves, docks, piers, bulk-
heads or pilings, and to lease or rent the same, and to impose
and collect dockage from all vessels and water craft lying at
or using the same, and to collect wharfage and other charges
upon all goods, wares, merchandise or other articles landed at,
shipped from, stored on or passed over the same; to provide for
the appointment of such officers and employees as may be neces-
sary to execute the aforegoing powers and to impose fines or
penalties for a breach of any ordinance passed in conformity
herewith, said fine not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200.00)
for any one offense. Provided, however, that, except in regard
to docks or wharves owned by the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, nothing contained in this act shall be construed to