CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. . 1005

six months or fined not exceeding five hundred 'dollars, or both or either,
at the discretion of the court; provided, that none of the provisions of this
section shall apply to Carroll county.

An. Code, sec. 98. 1904, sec. 90. 1888, sec. 64. 1882, ch. 149, sec. 1.

113. Any person who shall moor any vessel or vessels of any kind or
name whatsoever, or any raft or any part of a raft, to any buoy, beacon
or day mark placed in the waters of Maryland by the authority of the
United States lighthouse board, or shall in any manner hang on with any
vessel or raft, or part of a raft, to any such buoy, beacon or day 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 practicable 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 misdemeanor, 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.

An. Code, sec. 99. 1904, sec. 91. 1888, sec. 65. 1882, ch. 149, sec. 2.

114. 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 convic-
tion 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.

An. Code, sec. 100. 1904, sec. 92. 1888, sec. 66. 1882, ch. 149, sec. 3.

115. 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.

An. Code, sec. 100A. 1917, ch. 9, sec. 100A.

116. Every person, his aiders or abettors, who shall wilfully and
maliciously dynamite, blow up or otherwise wreck, destroy, injure or