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and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine not ex-
ceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, and the Harbor Board
is hereby empowered to remove forthwith, at the expense of
the persons erecting the same, the structure, obstruction or
extension complained of.

468. No vessel shall lie at any wharf, pier or dock, or adjoin-
ing same, in such manner as to obstruct or prevent the free
passage of any vessel to or from some other berth in the same
or another wharf, pier or dock. The master of any vessel re-
fusing to comply with the provisions of this section within one
hour from the time notice to move his said vessel shall have
been served upon him by the harbor master or a police officer
of Baltimore city, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall
be subject to a fine of not more than twenty dollars for every
hour thereafter said obstruction continues.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 30, 1908.

CHAPTER 190.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section 508
of article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws, entitled "City
of Baltimore," sub-title "Tenement and Lodging Houses,"
as enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, chapter
123, of the session of 1898.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted' by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That section 508 of article 4 of the Code of Public Local
Laws, entitled "City of Baltimore," sub-title "Tenement and
Lodging Houses," as enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, chapter 123, of the session of 1898, be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read
as follows:

SEC. 508. A tenement house shall be taken to mean and in-
clude every house, building or portion thereof which is rented,
leased, let or hired out to be occupied or is occupied as the
house or residence of three or more families, living indepen-
dently of one another, and doing their own cooking upon the
premises, or by more than two families upon a floor so living
or cooking, but having a common right in the halls, stairways,
yards, water closets or privies, or some of them; a lodging
house shall be taken to mean and include any house or build-
ing, or portion thereof, in which persons are harbored, or
received, or lodged for hire for a single night, or for less than