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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 471.

AN ACT to protect the waters of springs, streams or

rivers from any source which may be used to supply

any town or city in Harford county for domestic

and other purposes by water companies from pollu-

tion, and to protect their other property.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly

of Maryland, That if any person shall place, cast or

throw into any stream, spring or reservoir in Harford

Polluting the
waters.

county from which any water company or town or city
in this said county obtains water for -domestic use or

other purposes, any dead body or carcass of any animal

whatever, or cast or throw into said water any thing

calculated to obstruct or hinder the flow of said water

in the pipes of said company, or in any manner cause

said water to become impure or unfit for such service

for a distance of not less than three miles on said stream

above the place whence such water is taken, he or they

Penalty.

each and severally shall forfeit and pay a sum of not

less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, one half to the

informer and the other half to the city or town in

which such water works are situated, or imprisonment

in the county jail not less than ten or more than thirty

days, or both, at the discretion of the court; said fines

to be recovered by action of debt in the name of the

state before a justice of the peace.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective.

from and after the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.