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Passed March
8, 1862.
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AN ACT to amend Article four of the Code of
Public Local Laws, relating to the city of Balti-
more, by imposing penalties for polluting the
water in Swan Lake, the dam, reservoirs,
line of conduit, water pipes, gate-house or other
works constructed, or used in supplying the city
Baltimore with water, or injuring, defacing or
destroying the same.
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Pollution of
water in Swan
Lake; penalty.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That if any person shall wil-
fully pollute the water in the Lake, hereafter to
be known as Swan Lake, which was formed by the
erection of the dam across Jones' Falls, at or near
the Relay House, on the Northern Central Rail-
way, or any dam, reservoir, line of conduit, water
pipe, gate-house, or other work constructed or used
for supplying the city of Baltimore with water, by
swimming, bathing or washing therein, or by
washing or causing to be washed, any clothes, the
skin of any dead animal, or any impure, foetid or
noxious animal, or vegetable matter, in Swan Lake,
or. any dam, reservoir, line of conduit, water pipe,
gate-house, or other work constructed or used for
supplying the city of Baltimore with water, or so
near as to pollute the water therein, or who shall
throw or cause to be thrown, any impure, fcetid or
noxious animal or vegetable matter in said Swan
Lake, or in any dam, reservoir, line of conduit,
water pike, gate-house, or so near as to pollute the
water in any of the works used in supplying the
city of Baltimore with water, the person or persons
so offending, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less
than five nor more than fifty dollars for each
offence.
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Further pro-
vision against
pollution of the
water.
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Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That if any person
shall erect or cause to be erected, any privy, hog
pen, or other thing, over or so near "Swan Lake,"
or any dam of the said works, as to pollute the
water therein, the person or persons so offending
shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding fifty
dollars, and the further sum of ten dollars for
each and every day the same shall remain, after
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