404 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

shall not be recoverable where the obstruction proceeds from any
unavoidable cause.

WHARFINGER AND WHARVES.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 97, sec. 17.

363. No person shall land any wood or lumber on Pratt street
wharf, between Light street and Franklin lane; and the mayor of
the city of Baltimore shall enforce the provisions of this section.

Ibid. sec. 18.

364. If any person shall violate the provisions of the pre-
ceding section, he shall be subject to a fine of twenty dollars,
one-half to the informer and the other half to the State.

Ibid. sec. 19.

365. The said fine may be sued for and recovered in the name
of the State before any justice of the peace for said city, in the
same manner as small debts.

Ibid. sec. 20.

366. It shall be the duty of every justice of the peace for
said city to make an annual return to the State treasurer, of all
fines imposed under the provisions of the aforegoing section, and
to receive and pay over the same at the time of making said
return.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 944.

367. The mayor and city council shall not collect or impose
any tax, duty, toll or wharfage upon any goods, wares or mer-
chandise, or other articles for passing the same over any of the
public wharves within the said city, but the said corporation may
regulate by ordinance the time during which any goods, wareSj
merchandise or other articles may remain on said public wharves,
or the time which the vessels, boats or scows taking in or dis-
charging such goods, wares or merchandise, shall remain at said
wharves.

1880, ch. 218.

388. The mayor and city council may regulate, establish and
collect for the use of the city, such rate of wharfage as they may
think reasonable from all vessels resorting to or lying at, landing,
depositing or transporting goods or articles on any wharf