ART. 75] PROCESS——JURISDICTION. 1699

1904, art. 75, sec. 146. 1888, art 75, sec. 134. 1860, art. 75, sec. 89.

1860, ch. 29.

149. Any captain, master or owner of any steamboat or other ves-
sel may be sued for the non-delivery or injury of any goods or chattels
in the county where the goods or chattels are received on board of his
vessel or in the city or county in which the delivery was by the con-
tract to be made in the same manner as he can now be sued in. the
county in which he resides.

Ibid. sec. 147. 1888, art. 75, sec. 135. 1860, art. 75, sec. 90.
1704, ch. 92, sec. 3.

150. Every county lying on any navigable river in this State shall
extend its jurisdiction from the shore to the channel of the river that
divides the counties except where a dividing line has been fixed in such
river by law, and, where any ship or other vessel shall be in said river,
process may be served on board the said ship or vessel by the officers
of either county that can first serve it; but if she is moored or fastened
to the land on either side of said river, then she shall be considered
as in the county to whose shore she is fastened.

The Jurisdiction of the circuit court for Anne Arundel county extends to
the channel of the Patapsco river. The act of 1704, ch. 92, applies to every
county lying on a navigable river, whether it was laid off at the time of the
adoption of that act or not. Laying of venue in a criminal information.
Acton v. State, 80 Md.. 549; Raab v. State, 7 Md. 483. And see Western Md.,
etc., Co. v. Baltimore, 106 Md. 572.

This section referred to in deciding that piers extending out into the
Patapsco river beyond the bulkhead line were liable to taxation by Baltimore
city. Western Maryland, etc., Co. v. Baltimore. 106 Md. 572.

1908. ch. 487.

151. The jurisdiction of every county bounded at any point by
navigable waters shall extend from the shore to the inside of the chan-
nel, which shall be regarded to be the center of said waters, except where
said waters adjoin neighboring States, in which case the jurisdiction of
said counties shall continue to the ultimate limits of the State at the
place in question; provided, however, that nothing in this section or
the two following sections shall be construed as changing such rights
as the State of Maryland may have on or under such waters.

1908, ch. 487.

152. The center of the waters aforesaid shall be. deemed to be as
represented on the county maps issued under authority of the laws of
Maryland, 1896, chapter 51, and the laws of Maryland, 1898, chapter
129, and said maps shall be admissible as evidence as to the location of
the boundary or boundaries aforesaid.

1908, ch. 487.

153. Certified copies of said county maps shall be filed with the
clerks of the several courts for all the several counties of Maryland, and
also with the board of county commissioners of said counties; said maps
to be regarded as official and authoritative.