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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 418.

AN ACT to repeal sections one and ninety-four,

one hundred and ninety-six and one hundred

and ninety-seven of chapter thirty-five of arti-

cle four, Code of Public Local Laws, relat-

ing to the city of Baltimore, sub- title "Docks," as

repealed and re-enacted by chapter four hundred

and eight of the acts of eighteen hundred and

seventy-two, and to re-enact the same with amend-

ments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That sections one hundred and

ninety-four, one hundred and ninety-six, one hundred

Repealed and
re-enacted.

and ninety-seven of chapter thirty-five of article four,
Code of Public Local Laws, relating to the city of
Baltimore, sub-title " Docks," as repealed and re-en-

acted by chapter four hundred and eight of the acts

of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be and the

same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read

as follows :

194. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Not to ob-

Maryland, That if any vessel shall be lying in

struct.

Smith's dock, Frederick street dock or any other

dock in said city, or the entrance thereto, so as to

obstruct any vessel which shall be coining into the

same, or moving from one place to another therein,

or going out of the same, the vessel so obstructing

shall be removed to such place as shall be directed

by the harbor master of the district, or any police

officer of Baltimore city, to give room to the passing

vessel, under the penalty of five dollars for refusal so

to remove, and at the rate of five dollars an hour for

the delay which shall be occasioned to the passing

vessel, unless in cases where some unavoidable casu-

alty may make impractible to remove said obstruct-

ing vessel ; and if a vessel, when moving to make

room for another, be obstructed by any vessel, the

master or owner of such obstructing vessel shall

forfeit five dollars for such obstruction, and at the