APPENDIX C. 



breaicwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, 

 unless the work hus been recomm-icle.l by the Chief of Engineers and author- 

 ized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same. 



SEC. ii. That where it is made manifest to the Secretary of War that 

 the establishment of harbor lines is essential to the preservation and protec- of - 

 tion of harbors he may, and is hereby authorized to cause such lines to be 

 established, beyond which no piers, wharves, bulkheads, or other works shall 

 be extended or deposits made, except under such regulations as may be pre- 

 scribed from time to time by him : Provided, That whenever the Secretary of 

 War grants to any person or persons permission to extend piers, wharves, 

 bulkheads, or other works, or to make deposits in any tidal harbor or river of 

 the United States beyond any harbor lines established under authority of the 

 United States, he shall cause to be ascertained the amount of tide water dis- 

 placed by any such structure or by any such deposits, and he shall, if he deem 

 it necessary, require the parties to whom the permission is given to make . Compensa- 

 compensation for such displacement either by excavating in some part of the water displaced 



by structures 



harbor, including tide-water channels between high and low water mark, to and deposits. 

 such an extent as to create a basin for as much tide water as may be displaced 

 by such structure or by such deposits, or in any other mode that may be sat- 

 isfactory to him. 



SEC. 12. That every person and every corporation that shall violate any Penalties for 



J violations of 



of the provisions of sections nine, ten, and eleven of this Act, or any rule or three preceding 



sections. 



regulation made by the Secretary of War in pursuance of the provisions of 

 the said section fourteen, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 

 on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty- 

 five hundred dollars nor less than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment 

 (in the case of a natural person) not exceeding one year, or by both such pun- Removal of 



unlawful struc- 



ishments, in the discretion of the court. And further, the removal of any tures. 

 structures or parts of structures erected in violation of the provisions of the 

 said sections may be enforced by the injunction of any circuit court exercis- 

 ing jurisdiction in any district in which such structures may exist, and proper 

 proceedings to this end may be instituted under the direction of the Attor- 

 ney-General of the United States. 



SEC. i?. That it shall not be lawful to throw, discharge, or deposit, or Deposits of 



refuse, etc., for- 



cause, suffer, or procure to be thrown, discharged, or deposited either from bidden. 

 or out of any ship, barge, or other floating craft of any kind, or from the shore, 

 wharf, manufacturing establishment, or mill of any kind, any refuse matter 

 of any kind or description whatever other than that flowing from streets and 

 sewers and passing therefrom in a liquid state, into any navigable water of 

 the United States, or into any tributary of any navigable water from which 

 the same shall float or be washed into such navigable water ; and it shall not 



