Chap. 606.—An ACT empowering the council of the town of Smithfield to ap-
point a harbor master for said town, and to regulate and prescribe his duties
and fees for the performance of said duties, and to establish port warden lines
within the corporate jurisdiction and one mile beyond the same.

Approved January 18, 1904.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the council
of the town of Smithfield he, and is hereby, authorized and empowered to
appoint for the said town one harbor master, who shall have jurisdiction
over and along Pagan river, within the corporate limits of said town, and
one mile beyond the same: the said council is hereby authorized and em-
powered to make all needful rules and regulations concerning the an-
chorage or docking of all manner of vessels, to impose fines for the viola-
tion of any of said rules and regulations, and to collect the same by due
process of law. All fines imposed under the regulations made in pursu-
ance of the authority hereby granted shall be a lien on the vessel violat-
ing any of said rules and regulations so made by the said council.

The said council shall have the authority to establish such port warden
lines as they shall deem to the best interest to the safe navigation of the
said Pagan river.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.