480 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27,

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 offence be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction 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 discre-
tion 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.

1882, ch. 149, sec. 2.

65. It shall be unlawful for any vessel to anchor on the range-
line of any range lights established by the United States light-
house 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 3.

66. The cost of repairing or replacing any such buoy, beacon
or day mark which may have been misplaced, damaged or de-
stroyed 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