536 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

versation, shall, on conviction before a justice of the peace in the
county wherein such offence shall be committed, be fined not less
than one dollar nor more than twenty dollars, and be committed
to jail until the fine and costs are paid.

P. G. L , (1860,) art 30, sec. 169. 1824, ch. 53, sec. 2. 1849, ch. 195.

239. All fines imposed and collected under this article, for
disturbing religious meetings, shall be paid to the county; and
nothing in the four preceding sections shall prevent the courts of
record from exercising their common law jurisdiction in all cases
for disturbing public worship. And the party convicted under
any of the preceding sections, relating to religious meetings, shall
have the right to appeal to the next circuit court for the county
where the conviction is had, upon giving bail for his appearance
at court, and upon such appeal shall be entitled to a trial by jury.

Rivers.

P. G. L , (1860,) art. 30, sec. 170. 1734, ch 16, sec. 2. 1747, ch. 18. 1774, ch. 18,
1870, ch. 44. 1872, ch. 58.

240. If any ballast, ashes, filth, earth, soil, oysters or oyster
shells, be taken, unladen or cast out of any ship, steamboat, scow,
pungy or other vessel, on any pretence whatever, in the Chesapeake
bay, above " Sandy Point," or in the waters of Herring bay, or in
any river, creek or harbor, within this State, below high water
mark, the master or other person having charge or command of
such ship, steamboat, scow or other vessel, shall, upon conviction
thereof before any justice of the peace of this State, be fined not
less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred and fifty
dollars, one-half of which amount shall be paid to the informer
and the other half to the State; but any one convicted of vio-
lating the provisions of this section, shall be entitled to appeal
to the circuit court for the county in which he was convicted,
or to the Baltimore city court, if the offence was committed in
the city of Baltimore; this section shall not, however, be construed
to apply to the improvement of harbors, or to affect any existing
act of assembly relating to the construction of wharves or to the
rights of riparian proprietors.