ART. 27] DESTROYING PROPERTY MALICIOUSLY. 805

using such water, or to in any wise tamper with any meters
used to register the water consumed, unless such person or per-
sons shall be duly authorized by or be in the employ of such
company; provided, that nothing in this section shall in any
way interfere with the lawful supervision and control of water
companies, their canals, springs, reservoirs, tunnels, mounds,
dams, plugs, mains, pipes, conduits, connections, taps, valves,
engines and machinery by the municipalities; nor shall any-
thing in this section interfere with any right now existing in any
municipality to pass ordinances relating to and regulating such
water companies. Any person or persons found guilty of a
violation of any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be
imprisoned not exceeding six months or fined not exceeding
five hundred dollars, or both or either, at the discretion of the
court; provided, that none of the provisions of this section shall
apply to Carroll county.

1888, art. 27, sec. 64. 1882, ch. 149, sec. 1.

90. Any person who shall moor any vessel or vessels of any
kind or name whatsoever, or any raft or any part of a raft, to
any buoy, beacon or day mark placed in the waters of Mary-
land by the authority of the United States lighthouse board, or
shall in any manner hang on with any vessel or raft, or part of
a raft, to any such buoy, beacon or day mark, or shall wilfully
remove, damage or destroy any such buoy, beacon or day mark,
or shall cut down, remove, damage or destroy any beacon or
beacons erected on land in this State by the authority of the
said United States lighthouse board, or through unavoidable
accident run down, drag from its position, or in any way injure
any buoy, beacon or day mark, as aforesaid, and shall fail to
give notice as soon as practicable of having done so to the
lighthouse inspector of the district in which said buoy, beacon
or day mark may be located, or to the collector of the port, or
if in charge of a pilot to the collector of the port from which
he comes shall for every such offense be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any court of
competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine not to exceed
two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not to exceed three
months, or both, at the discretion of the court; one-third of the
fine in each case shall be paid to the informer, and two-thirds
thereof to the lighthouse board, to be used in repairing the
said buoys or beacons.