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CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.
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and other expenses incurred in the introduction of
water from the water mams, according to the rates
established by the said mayor and city council, and
for the water tax assessed, said payments to be
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How collected
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enforced by the same process that city or state
taxes are collected, or they may be collected by
process before a justice of the peace, or in any of
the courts of the city of Baltimore, having juris-
diction in such cases ; and the said mayor and city
council are hereby authorized and empowered to
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Police of water
works.
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appoint watchmen or such police force as may be
necessary for the protection of their water works in
the city and county of Baltimore, and to impose
fines and penalties for interference with or injury
to the works or their appendages, to prevent the
water from being obstructed or contaminated, and
to prohibit all meddling or tampering with the water
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Fines and pen-
alties
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works and their appurtenances ; said fines and pen-
alties shall be enforced as provided in this article,
sections two hundred and twenty-nine to two hun-
dred and thirty-five inclusive.
In force from February 8, 1866.
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NOTE —1861, c 20 authorizes the Mayor and City Council to issue certificates of debt to an
amount not exceeding $500,000, in addition to the amount authorized to be issued by section
939 of this article, to be denominated upon their face " Baltimore Water Stock," and bearing
interest not exceeding six per cent per annum, and to provide by ordinance for the redemp-
tion of the same.
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1862, c. 240 adds the following :
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1802, c 240 8 1.
Polluting the
water in Swan
lake, &c.
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940. If any person shall wilfully pollute the water
in the lake, hereafter to be known as Swan lake,
which was formed by the erection of a dam across
Jones' falls, at or near the relay house, on the
northern central railway, or any dam, reservoir, line
of conduit, water-pipe, gate-house, or other work
constructed or used for supplying the city of Balti-
more 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,
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