ART. 4.] WATER. 583

1861, ch. 240.

933. If any person shall injure, or cause to be injured, defaced
or destroyed, any dam, reservoir, line of conduit, water-pipe, gate-
house, stop-cock, or other thing used for supplying the city of
Baltimore with water, the person so offending shall forfeit and
pay a sum of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for
each offence.

Ibid.

934. All fines and forfeitures imposed by the preceding section
shall be recoverable by warrant before any justice of the peace in
and for the city of Baltimore, or in and for Baltimore county,
according to the respective jurisdiction under which any of the
offences herein set forth may be committed; one-half to the
informer and the other half to the mayor and city council of
Baltimore.

Ibid.

935. The two preceding sections shall not be construed to
exempt any person who may have been fined for a violation
thereof, or who may be charged with a violation thereof, from an
action of damages for any injury or destruction of any part of
the works used in supplying the city of Baltimore with water, in
any suit for damages on account of said injury, brought by the
mayor and city council of Baltimore.

PUMPS.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 823.

936. The mayor and city council have power to erect and
regulate pumps in the streets, lanes and alleys of Baltimore city.