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Passed March
3, 1845.
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An act supplementary to an act entitled, an act further to
amend the act incorporating the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Company, passed at December session, eighteen
hundred and thirty-one, chapter two hundred and ninety-
seven.
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Penalty for
injuries done.
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Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That if any person or persons shall wilfully or
maliciously open or close any waste gate, or any gate or
wicket of any lock of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, or
shall wilfully or maliciously by any means whatever in-
jure, impair, break or destroy any part of the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal, or any part of its Feeders, dams, locks,
aqueducts, wastes, waste weirs, culverts, walls embank-
ments, bridges, buildings or other works now constructed
or which may hereafter be constructed by the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal Company, under the several acts incor-
porating the said canal company, or amendatory thereof,
or supplementary thereto, such person or persons so offend-
ing shall for every such offence, forfeit and pay to the said
canal company a fine of twenty dollars, to be recovered
as hereinafter provided for, and any one or more of them
shall also be liable to pay a sum equal to the damage sus-
tained by said company by such injury, to be recovered
by said company, if under one hundred dollars, before a
single justice of the peace or district court as the case
may be, as small debts are now recovered, and if over one
hundred dollars, by action in the county court of the
county where the injury was committed, and every such
offender shall furthermore be subject to indictment in the
court of the county in which the offence shall be commit-
ted, and upon conviction of such offence shall be punished
by imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months in
the discretion of the court.
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