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not less than one mile from the place of manufacture by a burner
consuming five cubic feet of gas per hour, and shall, as regards
purity, comply with the standard now or hereafter established by
law.

HARBOR, DOCKS AND WHARVES.

HARBOR.

1884, ch. 230. 1888, ch. 261.

343. The mayor and city council shall have full power to

provide for the preservation of the navigation of the Patapsco
river and tributaries, including the establishment of lines outside
the limits of the city and within four miles thereof, beyond which
no pier, bulkhead or wharf shall be built or extended, and for
cleaning and deepening the harbor and docks, and for regulating
the stationing, anchoring and mooring of vessels.
M. & C. C. v. St. Agnes Hospital, 48 Md. 419.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 794.

344. No person, his servant of agent, shall put or throw into
the Patapsco river, or any of the navigable branches thereof, any
earth, sand or dirt, or lay out on the beach or shore of said river
below common high-water mark, any earth, sand or dirt, unless
such earth, sand or dirt be first well secured by stone walls, dove-
tailed log pens or otherwise, so that no part thereof may wash
into said river or into the navigable branches thereof.

Garitee e M. & C C., 53 Md. 422.

Ibid. sec. 795.

345. Any person offending against the provisions of the last
preceding section shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifteen dollars,
to be recovered before a justice of the peace, as in case of small
debts, one-half to the State and the other half to the person who
shall sue for the same.

Ibid. sec. 796.

346. The mayor and city council shall have full power and
authority to make such rules, regulations and ordinances from
time to time, respecting the mooring and safe stationing of all

vessels arriving in said port, as they shall deem necessary.