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or timber, shall be deemed nuisances, and may be taken out and
destroyed as such by any person.

P. L. L. (1860,) art. 22, sec. 59.

147. No person shall place or make any weir, or fell any tree
across or in said creek where the tide is known to run flood, under
the penalty of twenty-five dollars, to be recovered before any
justice of the peace of the county, one-half to go to the informer
or person who will sue for or prosecute the same with effect, the
other half to the use of the county, to be applied towards the
improvement of the navigation of said creek.

Ibid sec. 60.

148. No person shall unload or throw out the ballast of any
boat or vessel into the navigable rivers or creeks in said county,
or make or keep any weirs or hedges in said rivers or creeks so
as to injure or obstruct the navigation thereof.

Ibid. sec. 61.

149. Any person who shall be convicted before a justice of
the peace for said county, of throwing out the ballast of any boat
or vessel into said waters, so as to injure the navigation thereof,
or prevent boats or vessels from lying alongside of the wharves,
or who shall be convicted of keeping or making any weirs or
hedges in the channels of said rivers or creeks, or of throwing
stones, shells, gravel or other things into said rivers and creeks,
so as to obstruct and injure the navigation, shall forfeit and pay
a sum, in the discretion of the justice, not exceeding fifty dollars,
one-half to the informer and the other half to the county.

Ibid. sec. 62.

150. All persons owning, commanding or having charge of
any boat or vessel navigating said rivers or creeks, shall charge
and command all persons belonging to or engaged in the service
of such boat or vessel to be careful of the discharge of its ballast,
so that the preceding section shall not be violated; and if it shall
appear that the provisions of said section have been violated from
the negligence of the owner, commander or person having charges
of any boat or vessel, such person may be fined as aforesaid.