2102 WHARVES AND STATE WHARFINGER. [ART. 98

1888, art. 98, sec. 19. 1860, art. 97, sec. 19. 1828, ch. 88, sec. 2.
1898, ch. 123, sec. 474.

19. 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. 1860, art. 97, sec. 20. 1828, ch. 88, sec. 3.

20. It shall be the duty of every justice of the peace for
said, city to make an annual return to the 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.

Ibid. sec. 21. 1860, art. 97, sec. 21. 1835, ch. 168.

21. Any person owning real estate in fee simple, or having
therein an estate for years renewable forever on any of the
navigable waters of this State may construct wharves thereon
and extend the same such a distance into the stream as may
be required to admit the safe approach thereto of any vessel
navigating said waters; provided said wharves be not extended
so as to interfere with the fishing or navigation of said waters.

Ibid, sec 22. 1860, art. 97, sec. 22. 1840, ch. 124.

22. Any person authorized to build a wharf on the west
side of the Susquehanna river shall build the same in front of
the shore to which such wharf may be attached and shall not,
without the consent of the owner of the lands adjoining that
to which such wharf may be attached, build any port of such
wharf outside of a line drawn from the land of the owner of
such wharf to the channel of said river at right angles to said
channel.

Ibid sec. 23. 1884, ch. 486.

23. Any person or corporation who shall be the owner or
lessee under an agreement to keep in repair any wharf, pier or
landing projecting into or bordering upon any navigable waters
within the State of Maryland where passengers are landed or
taken off, who shall knowingly permit any such wharf, pier or
landing to be or to remain in an unsafe condition, and any
steamboat or transportation company which shall land passen-
gers at any such wharf, pier or landing knowing the same to
be unsafe, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and liable to a fine
of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars
to be collected as other fines and forfeitures are collected, one-
half to go to the informer