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54 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.
The Act of 1862, ch. 240, adds the following:
62. If any person shall wilfully pollute the water in the lake,
hereafter to be known as Swan Lake, which was formed by the
erection of the darn across Jones' falls, at or near the relay house,
on the Northern Central railway, or any dam, reservoir, line of
conduit, water pipe, gate-house, or other work constructed or
used for supplying the city of Baltimore with water, by swim-
ming, bathing or washing therein, or by washing or causing to
be washed, any clothes, the skin of any dead animal, or any im-
pure, foetid or noxious animal, or vegetable matter, in Swan
Lake, or any dam, reservoir, line of conduit, water pipe, gate-
house, or other work constructed or used for supplying the city
of Baltimore with water, or so near as to pollute the water
therein, or who shall throw or cause to be thrown, any impure,
foatid or noxious animal or vegetable matter in said Swan Lake,
or in any dam, reservoir, line of conduit, water pipe, gate-house,
or so near as to pollute the water in any of the works used in
supplying the city of Baltimore with water, the person or per-
sons so offending, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than five,
nor more than fifty dollars for each offence.
63. If any person shall erect or cause to be erected, any privy,
hog pen, or other thing, over or so near " Swan Lake, " or any
dam of the said works, as to pollute the water therein, the per-
son or persons so offending shall forfeit and pay a sum not ex-
ceeding fifty dollars, and the further sum of ten dollars for each
and every day the same shall remain, after due notice to remove
the same shall have been given.
64. If any person shall injure or cause to be injured, defaced
or destroyed, any dam, reservoir, line of conduit, water pipe,
gate-house, stop cock, or other thing, used for supplying the
city of Baltimore with water, the person so offending shall for-
feit and pay a sum not less than five, nor more than fifty dollars
for each offence.
65. All fines and forfeitures imposed by this act, shall be re-
coverable by warrant, before any justice of the peace, in and for
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