1376 HARFORD COUNTY. [ART. 13.

F. L. L., (1860,) art. 13, sec. 141.

267. If any person shall carelessly or neglectfully break or
injure any lock, gage, wicket, embankment, wall or other work
appertaining to said canal, he shall pay a sum equal to the dam-
age sustained by the company by such injury; to be recovered
by such company, if under one hundred dollars, before a justice
of the peace, or if over one hundred dollars, in the circuit court,
for Harford county.

Ibid. sec. 142.

268. If any person shall anchor or place any vessel or other
thing so near the outlet locks of said canal as to obstruct or
impede the use of such outlet locks, or shall build or erect on or
against the tow path or embankment of said company, any house,
shed, wharf or other fixture, he shall pay to the said company
twenty dollars for each offence, to be recovered as small debts;
and the said company, by its officers or agents, may remove such
obstructions or fixtures.

WATER.

1884, ch. 471.

269. If any person shall place, cast or throw into any stream,
spring or reservoir in said county from which any water company
or town or city in said county obtains water for domestic use or
other purposes, any dead body or carcass of any animal what-
ever, or cast or throw into said water any thing calculated to.
obstruct or hinder the flow of said water in the pipes of said,
company, or in any manner cause said water to become impure
or unfit for such service for a distance of not less than three miles
on said stream above the place whence such water is taken, he
shall forfeit and pay a sum of not less than ten nor more than
fifty dollars, one-half to the informer and the other half to the
city or town in which such water works are situated, or be im-
prisoned in the county jail not less than ten or more than thirty
days, or both, at the discretion of the court; said fines to be
recovered by action of debt in the name of the State before a
justice of the peace.