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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 130.

AN ACT to repeal section ten of chapter seventy

of the Acts of the General Assembly of Mary-

land, passed at the January session, eighteen

hundred and seventy-eight, entitled " An Act to

define and preserve the Inner Harbor of Cam-

bridge, and Cambridge creek, in Dorchester

county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That section ten of chapter

seventy of the Acts of the General Assembly of

Repealed and

Maryland, passed at the January session, eighteen

re-enacted.

hundred and seventy-eight, be and the same is

hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as

follows :

SECTION 10. And be it enacted, That on or before

the fourth day of January, eighteen hundred and

eighty-three, the County Commissioners of Dor-

chester county shall appoint some suitable person

Appoint har-
bor master.

as harbor master, who may also be the keeper of
any draw in any bridge over Cambridge creek, to

serve for one year; but nothing herein shall be

construed so as to require the said harbor master

and keeper of the draw to be one and the same

person; and they shall make a like appointment

annually thereafter, the incumbent for each year to

hold over until his successor is appointed, and in

addition to the duties of harbor master, as pre-

scribed in section nine, he shall order that no steamer

shall enter or leave the harbor at a greater speed

than five knots per hour, and in this order the har-

Harbor to

bor shall extend to the outer buoy and include the

extend to out-
er buoy.

entire channel dug by artificial means, and any cap-

tain or other person in command of a steamer

disregarding this order shall be deemed guilty of a

misdemeanor, and upon conviction before a justice

of the peace shall be fined and punished as in section

nine of this act. The draw keeper shall appoint

one hour in the morning and one hour in the even-

Time to open
and close draw

ing, that will the least interfere with the travel over

said bridge, to open and close the said draw for

boats and vessels to pass through, always keeping