1176 LAWS OF MARYLAND, [CH. 471

be paid into the Conservation Fund and is hereby specifically
appropriated to be expended by the Conservation Commissioner
f or the purposes above named.

POLLUTION PROHIBITED—PENALTY.

Sec. 14. Whenever any watercourse, well, spring, open
ditch, gutter, cesspool, sewer, private or public drain, privy-
pit, pig pen, or other place, or any accumulation or deposit of
waste or other offensive or noxious matters discharged from
any house, building, trade establishment or manufacturing
place, or any waste from any vessel, shall become or danger-
ously threaten to become deleterious to or destructive of fish
or shellfish life, or the propagation, cultivation or conservation
thereof, or to their safety as human food, or in any manner a
menace to said fish or shellfish whether private or public prop-
erty, in any waters of the State, the Conservation Commis-
sioner of Maryland shall forthwith investigate the matter, and
if it be so found shall serve a notice in writing on the person,
firm or corporation, by whose act, default or sufferance such
condition may arise or continue, requiring the abatement of
the same within a time to be fixed by the Commissioner and
to be specified in the notice, under a penalty imposed by a Court
of not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than three hun-
dred dollars, or imprisonment for not less than one year nor more
than three years, or be both fined and imprisoned, in the discre-
tion of the Court. It shall be construed as a separate and dis-
tinct offense for each day the nuisance is permitted to continue
after the expiration of the time limit set forth in the notice for
the abatement, of such nuisance, provided, however, that nothing
herein contained shall be deemed to alter, change, modify or
restrict the jurisdiction of the State Board of Health of
Maryland; provided, however, that the provisions of this sec-
tion shall not apply to the Sewerage Disposal Plant of any
city, town or county in this State.

DYNAMITING AND POISONING STREAMS UNLAWFUL—PENALTY.

Sec. 15. No person shall place in any of the waters of this
State, including lakes or ponds, any lime, poison, acid, sawdust,
shaving or other substance whatsoever deleterious to or destruc-
tive of fish life, or place, throw or make use of in any waters of
this State, except bona fide engineering, milling or mining pur-
poses, any dynamite or other explosive substance; under a
penalty of not less than $100 nor more than $300 or imprison-