402 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 273.

356. The mayor and city council may appoint as many harbor
masters, port wardens or other officers or agents as may be neces-
sary to execute the powers conferred by the nine preceding sec-
tions.

DOCKS.
P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 192.

357. The mayor and city council shall have power to pass
ordinances for cleaning and deepening the basin and docks, and
for regulating the station, anchoring and mooring of vessels.

Ibid.

358. The mayor and city council are vested with the right
and title to any land made or to be made by them out of the
water in making and completing the improvements of the city
dock, according to the plan heretofore adopted by them; pro-
vided, that nothing contained in this section shall be construed to
interfere with the vested rights of individuals.

1880, ch. 418.

359. If any vessel shall be lying in Smith's dock, Frederick
street dock or any other dock in said city, or the entrance thereto,
so as to obstruct any vessel which shall be coming into the same,
or moving from one place to another therein, or going out of the
same, the vessel so obstructing shall be removed to such place as
shall be directed by the harbor master of the district, or any
police officer of Baltimore city, to give room to the passing vessel,
under the penalty of five dollars for refusal so to remove, and at
the rate of five dollars an hour for the delay which shall be occa-
sioned to the passing vessel, unless in cases where some unavoid-
able casualty may make it impracticable to remove said obstruct-
ing vessel; and if a vessel, when moving to make room for
another, be obstructed by any vessel, the master or owner of such
obstructing vessel shall forfeit five dollars for such obstruction,
and at the rate of five dollars per hour during the continuance of
such obstruction, to be recovered by the master or owner of the
passing vessel aforesaid; provided, the said harbor master or
police officer shall have directed said removal; but nothing