1792 SOMERSET COUNTY. [ART. 20.

the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a public
nuisance, and on indictment and conviction in the circuit court,
shall be fined a sum equal to the cost of removing said nuisance,
and shall be confined in the county jail till the said fine and costs,
shall be paid; and to enable the court to determine the amount
of the said fine, they shall, at the time of trial, hear evidence of
the probable cost of removing such nuisance; and if any person
shall unload, discharge or throw overboard, any ballast, shells,
stones, earth or other matter, into the said harbor, or shall fill up
or obstruct the navigation of the same, he shall also be guilty of
a public nuisance, and shall, on indictment and conviction as
aforesaid, be punished by fine, at the discretion of the court, and
be committed as aforesaid till the said fine and costs are paid.

1876, ch. 8.

98. The commissioners of Crisfield are authorized and em-
powered to grant permission to any person applying for the
same, to extend marine railways into the harbor at Crisfield, and
to settle and place such obstructions in the said harbor as may be-
necessary for that purpose.

Ibid.

99. No person erecting such ways and extending them into
the said river, by the permission of said commissioners, shall be
subject to any of the penalties prescribed in section 97.

1876. ch. 8.

100. The harbor line of Crisfield on the north side of the
said town is extended as follows: beginning at the northwest
corner of the premises occupied by George "W. Long & Co.;
thence north thirty degrees and thirty minutes, west sixty feet;.
thence north fifty-nine degrees, thirty minutes, east two hundred
feet; thence north, eight degrees, fifteen minutes, east to the
extent of the said harbor, for the purpose of obtaining deeper
water, so as to admit the building of oyster houses along the
same.

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

1880, ch. 129.

101. The provisions of sections 241 to 245 of article 4 of the
public local laws, title " City of Baltimore," relating to " Cruelty