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choring and moving of vessels or other water craft, and to pre-
vent any material, refuse or matter of any kind from being
thrown into, deposited in or placed where the same may fallr
or be washed, into said river or tributaries; to make surveys or
charts of the Patapsco River and tributaries, and to ascer-
tain the depth and course of the channels of the same; and
when necessary, in its judgment, to affix buoys or water marks
for facilitating and rendering more safe the navigation thereof;
to erect and maintain and to authorize the erection and main-
tenance of, and to make such regulations as it may deem proper,
respecting wharves, bulkheads, piers and piling, and the keeping
of the same in repair; so as to prevent injury to navigation or
health; to regulate the use of public wharves, docks, piers, bulk-
heads or pilings, and to lease or rent the same, and to impose
and collect dockage from all vessels and water craft lying at or
using the same, and to collect wharfage and other charges
upon all goods, wares, merchandise or other articles landed at,
shipped from, stored on or passed over the same; to provide
for the appointment of such officers and employees as may be
necessary to execute the aforegoing powers and to impose fines
or penalties for a breach of any ordinance passed in conformity
herewith, said fine not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200)
for any one offense. Provided, however, that, except in regard
to docks or wharves owned by the Mayor and City Council of
Baltimore, nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to
impose any duty upon the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
to any person or corporation using said river, or any of its
tributaries, in regard to the safety thereof, or to render the said
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore liable for any loss of life,
or injury or damage to person or property, by reason of any
obstruction in, or unsafe condition of, any part of said river,
or of said tributaries or branches, or either of them.

Nothing contained in this Act shall be so construed as to
render the City of Baltimore, or any of its officers, liable in
damage or otherwise to any person or persons, or corporations,
for any omissions to pass any ordinance, regulation or resolu-
tion pursuant to the provisions hereof, or for a failure to en-
force the same.

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

Approved March 24th, 1914.