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or any pipe, plug, hydrant, valve, cock, meter, motor, instrument or ma-
chine belonging to the said water company shall be stopped, obstructed,
impaired or injured.
P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 399. 1882, ch. 21.
815. Upon information given upon oath or affirmation to any justice
of the peace of Washington county of any violation of any of the pro-
visions of this sub-title of this article, he shall issue his warrant, to be
directed to the sheriff or any constable of said county, for the arrest of
the offender, and to bring such offender before said justice or any other
justice of the peace of said county; and upon conviction thereof the said
offender shall be fined not less than five or more than one hundred dollars,
together with the costs of the proceedings, to be taxed as costs in other
criminal proceedings; one-half of said fine to be paid to the informer,
and the other half to the Washington county water company; and in case
of the non-payment of such fine and costs imposed by said justice, the
said offender shall be committed to the county jail for a period not less
than three days or more than fifty days, or until such fine and costs are
paid.
P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 400. 1882, ch. 21.
816. In addition to the remedy and punishment provided for in the
preceding section, the said water company is authorized and empowered,
by informations or petitions filed in its name, to apply to the jndge or to
any judge of the circuit court for Washington county, in term time or
vacation, for an injunction to restrain and prevent the nuisances and evils
intended to be prevented by this sub-title of this article, no matter by
whom or under what authority committed.
WILD FOWL.
(All local laws relating to Wild Fowl were repealed by ch. 568, 1927. See 1929
Supplement to Annotated Code, Art. 99.)
WILLIAMSPORT.
P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 403. 1876, ch. 53. 1890, ch. 613. 1904, ch. 17, sec. 403.
817. The citizens of the town of Williamsport, in Washington county,
Maryland, are a body corporate by the name of Burgess and Commis-
sioners of Williamsport, and by that name may sue and be sued and have
and use a common seal.
P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 404. 1876, ch. 53. 1904, oh. 17, sec. 404.
1929, ch. 457, sec. 404.
818. The bounds of said town as described on a plat thereof recorded in
the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Washington County are here-
by extended so as to include all the" territory within the following limits:
Beginning at low water mark on the right or north bank of the Conoco-
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