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Harbour master may remove wrecks, &c.
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56. The harbour master may remove any wreck or other obstruction to the harbour, dock, or pier, or the approaches to the same, and also any floating timber which impedes the navigation thereof, and the expence of removing any such wreck, obstruction, or floating timber sall be repaid by the owner of the same; and the harbour master may detain such wreck or floating timber for securing the expences, an on nonpayment of such expences, on demand, may sell such wreck or floating timber, and out of the proceeds of such sale pay such expences, rendering the overplus, if any, to the owner on demand.
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