ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 38.

AN ACT to protect the water and property of the

Emmittsburg Water Company, in Frederick county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That it shall not be lawful for any

person or persons to obstruct or hinder the ordinary

and natural flow of the water in any of the supply

springs, streams or pipes of the Emmittsburg Water

Company, in Frederick county, or commit any nuis-

Not to obstruct

ance in any of said springs, streams or pipes, or in any

or hinder wa-
ter flow.

way defile the water in any of said springs, streams

or pipes, or to carry on upon, or adjacent to, any of

said springs or streams, any trade or business which

will affect the purity or cleanliness of the water flow-

ing from said springs or in said streams, or do or com-

mit any act affecting the purity or cleanliness of the

water in said springs, streams or pipes.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall not be law-

ful for any person or persons to interfere with the

water in the reservoir or storage dam of the Emmitts-

burg Water Company, in Frederick county, or in the

pipes leading therefrom, or to commit any nuisance,

or trespass in and upon said reservoir or storage dam,

Not to inter-

or on the grounds adjacent to said reservoir or storage

fere with the
water.

dam, or to defile the water in said reservoir or stor-

age dam by bathing, swimming, boating, skating, or

by throwing therein any filth, garbage, carcas or other

matter, or to conduct or carry on, at or adjacent to

said reservoir or storage dam, any trade or business

affecting the purity and cleanliness of the water in

said reservoir or storage dam.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall not be law-

ful for any person or persons to interfere with, break,

injure, deface, carry away or destroy any of the pipes,

valves, stops, castings, fire plugs, hydrants, instru-

ments or apparatus of the Emmittsburg Water Com-

Not to injure,
deface, &c.

pany, in Frederick county, leading to and from any

of the reservoirs or storage dams of said company, or

on the grounds of said company, or along the lines

of its springs, streams or pipes, or in the town of

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Emmittsburg.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall not be law-

ful for any person or persons to open any of the stops