THOMAS H. HICKS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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provide for carrying into effect the twenty-second
section of the fourth article of the Constitution,
passed at January session, eighteen hundred and
fifty-two, chapter sixty-eight; the said Judge shall
immediately, with the consent of the parties, after
the announcement of such contingency, order and
direct the bill, exhibits, answers, and all other
proceedings in such cause, to be transmitted to
the Circuit Court for Baltimore city, which said
Court shall proceed in, hear and determine the
name in like manner as if the said cause had been
originally instituted therein.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That this act shall ]
take effect from and after the day of the passage
thereof.

CHAPTER 427.

In force.

AN ACT to prevent the filling up of Harbors in

Somerset county.

Passed March
9, 1858.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That it shall not be lawful to
cast over any oysters or oyster shells, ballast or
any other thing, upon the bottom of any Harbor
or anchoring ground, by means of which any such
Harbor or place accustomed to be used as an an-
choring ground for vessels within the bounds of
Somerset county, may be filled up, or by which
vessels lying at anchor, or the free and easy access
of vessels to and from said Harbor or anchoring
grounds may be in any manner hindered or ob-
structed.

Not Iawful to

fill up harbors
or anchorage
grounds.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That any person or
persons violating the provisions of this act, be or
they shall be fined a sum of not less than ten nor
more than thirty dollars in the discretion of the
Court, upon indictment and conviction in the Cir-
cuit Court of said county, or upon conviction be-
fore any Justice of the Peace of the same; and for
the second offence, he or they shall be fined not
less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars in the

Penalty for
violating pro-
vision! of act