2198 WHARVES AND STATE WHARFINGER [ART. 98

1904, art. 98, sec. 23. 1888, art. 98, sec. 23. 1884, ch. 486.
23. Any person or corporation who shall be the owner or lessee
under an agreement to keep in repair any wharf, pier or landing pro-
jecting into or bordering upon any navigable waters within the State
of Maryland where passengers are landed or taken off, who shall know-
ingly permit any such wharf, pier or landing to be or to remain in an
unsafe condition, and any steamboat or transportation company which
shall land passengers at any such wharf, pier or landing knowing the
same to be unsafe, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and liable to a
fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars to
be collected as other fines and forfeitures are collected, one-half to go
to the informer.