340 CHIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

mark, or shall wilfully remove, damage or destroy any such buoy,
beacon or day mark, or shall cut down, remove, damage or destroy any
beacon or beacons erected on land in this State by the authority of the
said United States lighthouse board, or through unavoidable accident
run down, drag from its position, or in any way injure any buoy, beacon
or day mark, as aforesaid, and shall fail to give notice as soon as prac-
ticable of having done so to the lighthouse inspector of the district in
which said buoy, beacon or day mark may be located, or to the collector
of the port, or if in charge of a pilot to the collector of the port from
which he comes shall for every such offense be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any court of competent
jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine not to exceed two hundred
dollars, or by imprisonment not to exceed three months, or both, at the
discretion of the court; one-third of the fine in each case shall be paid
to the informer, and two-thirds thereof to the lighthouse board, to be
used in repairing the said buoys or beacons.

1904, art. 27, sec. 91. 1888, art. 27, sec. 65. 1882, ch. 149, sec. 2.

99. It shall be unlawful for any vessel to anchor on the range line-
of any range lights established by the United States lighthouse board in
this State, unless such anchorage is unavoidable; and the master of
any vessel so anchoring shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction shall
be punished by a fine not to exceed fifty dollars; one-half of the fine in
each case to be paid to the informer and one-half to the State.

Ibid. sec. 92. 1888, art. 27, sec. 66. 1882, ch. 149, sec. 3.

100. The cost of repairing or replacing any such buoy, beacon or
day mark which may have been displaced, damaged or destroyed by any
vessel or raft whatsoever having been made fast to any such buoy,
beacon or day mark shall when the same shall be legally ascertained, be
a lien upon such vessel or raft, and may be recovered against said vessel
or raft and the owner or owners thereof in an action of debt in any-
court of competent jurisdiction in this State.

Disturbance of the Public Peace.

Ibid. sec. 93. 1888, art. 27, sec. 67, 1880, ch. 22. 1884, ch. 181. 1898, ch. 351.

1900, ch. 285.

101. Any person who shall wilfully obstruct or hinder the free pas-
sage of persons passing along or by any public street or highway in any
city or town of this State, or who shall wilfully disturb any neighbor-
hood in such city or town by loud and unseemly noises, or shall pro-
fanely curse and swear or use obscene language upon or near to any
such street or highway within the hearing of persons passing by or along-
such highway, or shall wilfully hinder or obstruct the free passage of
persons passing on or through or out of the station grounds of any rail-
road in the State, or who shall wilfully act in a disorderly manner-
within such station grounds by making such loud and unseemly noises,.