ART. 4.] HARBOR, DOCKS AND WHARVES. 401

city council on harbor; and the mayor, when said city council is
not in session, if duly authorized so to act by the mayor and city,
council to carry the same into effect.

Page v. Mayor, &c., 34 Md. 658. Hazlehurst v Mayor, 37 Md. 199. Wil-
liams v. Baker, 41 Md. 523. B. & O. R. R. Co. v. Chase, 43 Md. 24. Horner v.
Pleasants, 66 Md. 477.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 268.

352. If any person shall violate the provisions of the preceding
section, the mayor and city council may recover, by a warrant
before a justice of the peace, a sum not exceeding two hundred
and fifty dollars, and may forthwith cause the said wharf to be
demolished.

Ibid. sec. 269.

353. The harbor master of the port of Baltimore may de-
mand from the captain or commander of every foreign vessel
coming into said port for the purpose of trade and commerce,
the sum of five dollars, as an additional compensation for his care
and diligence in the regulation of the harbor and providing a
proper station for said vessel.

Ibid. sec. 270.

354. He may, in case of delay or refusal to make euch pay-
ment, sue for and recover the same before a justice of the peace
as small debts are recovered.

Ibid. sec. 271.

355. The mayor and city council shall have full power and
authority to assess, levy and collect on every thousand feet of
lumber floating into or arriving at the port of Baltimore and
washed therein, a sum not exceeding thirty cents per thousand
feet, board measure, and not less than fifteen cents per thousand
feet, board measure, (excepting all timber floating into or arriving
at said port for the purpose of being sawed in said city, or its
vicinity, and all timber to be used for masts, spars and wharfing
timber,) to be appropriated and applied by the mayor and city
council to carrying into effect the rules and regulations which
they may from time to time make respecting the said harbor and
port