806 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

1888, art. 27, sec. 65. 1882, ch. 149, sec. 2.

91. It shall be unlawful for any vessel to anchor on the
range line of any range lights established by the United States
lighthouse board in this State, unless such anchorage is
unavoidable; and the master of any vessel so anchoring shall
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 fifty dollars; one-half of the
fine in each case to be paid to the informer and one-half to the
State.

Ibid. sec. 66. 1882, ch. 149, sec. 3.

92. The cost of repairing or replacing any such buoy, beacon
or day mark which may have been displaced, damaged or
destroyed by any vessel or raft whatsoever having been made
fast to any such buoy, beacon or day mark shall when the
same shall be legally ascertained, be a lien upon such vessel or
raft, and may be recovered against said vessel or raft and the
owner or owners thereof in an action of debt in any court of
competent jurisdiction in this State.

Disturbance of the Public Peace.

1888, art. 27, sec. 67. 1880, ch. 22. 1884, ch. 181. 1898, ch. 351.
1900, ch. 285.

93. Any person who shall wilfully obstruct or hinder the
free passage of persons passing along or by any public street
or highway in any city or town of this State, or who shall
wilfully disturb any neighborhood in such city or town by loud
and unseemly noises, or shall profanely curse and swear or use
obscene language upon or near to any such street or highway
within the hearing of persons passing by or along such high-
way, or shall wilfully hinder or obstruct the free passage of
persons passing on or through or out of the station grounds of
any railroad in the State, or who shall wilfully act in a disor-
derly manner within such station grounds by making such loud
and unseemly noises, or by catching hold of and soliciting per-
sons on said grounds against the will of such person, shall,
upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to a fine of not less than
one dollar and not more than twenty-five dollars, and to the
costs of the prosecution, and the several justices of the peace of
this State shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the courts
of this State having criminal jurisdiction over the offenses
described in this section, provided this section shall not apply
to Baltimore city.