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AN ACT TO PREVENT OBSTRUCTIVE AND INJURIOUS DEPOSITS WITHIN THE HAR- 
BOR AND ADJACENT WATERS OF NEW YORK CITY, BY DUMPING OR OTHER- 
WISE, AND TO PUNISH AND PREVENT SUCH OFFENSES. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
of America in Congress assembled, That the placing, discharging, or depositing, 
by any process or in any manner, of refuse, dirt, ashes, cinders, mud, sand, 
dredgings, sludge, acid, or any other matter of any kind, other than that flowing 
from streets, sewers, and passing therefrom in a liquid state, in the tidal waters 
of the harbor of New York, or its adjacent or tributary waters, or in those of 
Long Island Sound, within the limits which shall be prescribed by the supervisor 
of the harbor, is hereby strictly forbidden, and every such act is made a misde- 
meanor, and every person engaged in or who shall aid, abet, authorize, or insti- 
gate a violation of this section, shall, upon conviction, be punishable by fine or 
imprisonment, or both, such fine to be not less than two hundred and fifty dollars 
nor more than two thousand five hundred dollars, and the imprisonment to be 
not less than thirty days nor more than one year, either or both united, as the 
judge before whom conviction is obtained shall decide, one half of said fine to be 
paid to the person or persons giving information which shall lead to conviction 
of this misdemeanor. 
Sec. 2. That any and every master and engineer, or person or persons acting 
in such capacity, respectively, on board of any boat or vessel, who shall know- 
ingly engage in towing any scow, boat, or vessel loaded with any such prohibited 
matter to any point or place of deposit, or discharge in the waters of the harbor 
of New York, or in its adjacent, or tributary waters, or in those of Long Island 
Sound, or to any point or place elsewhere than within the limits defined and per- 
mitted by the supervisor of the harbor hereinafter mentioned, shall be deemed 
guilty of a violation of this act, and shall, upon conviction, be punishable as 
hereinbefore provided for offenses in violation of Section one of this act,and shall 
also have his license revoked or suspended for a term to be fixed by the judge 
before whom tried and convicted. 
Sec. 3. That in all cases of receiving on board of any scows or boats such 
forbidden matter or substance as herein described, it shall be the duty of the 
owner or master, or person acting in such capacity, on board of such scows or 
boats, before proceeding to take or tow the same to the place of deposit, to apply 
for and obtain from the supervisor of the harbor appointed hereunder a permit 
defining the precise limits within which the discharge of such scows or boats may 
be made; and any deviation from such dumping or discharging place. specified in 
such permit shall be a misdemeanor within the meaning of this act; and the 
master and engineer, or person or persons acting in such capacity, on board of 
