Section 22. No ballast or rubbish, and no other thing likely to form a bank or shoal, or to be detrimental to na

22. No ballast or rubbish, and no other thing likely to form a bank or shoal, or to be detrimental to navigation, shall, without lawful excuse, be cast or thrown into any such port, QF into or upon any place on shore, from which the same is liable to be. washed into any such port, either -by ordinary or high tides, or by storms or land-floods. TIThoever 1 6 I 1 ;I Whoever by himself or another so casts or throws the same, and the Master of any vessel from which the same is cast or thrown, shall be punished with, fine which may extend to fiye hundred rupees over and above any expenses which may be incurred in removing the same. If after receiving notice from the Conservator of the port to desist casting or throwing any such ballast or other thing, any Master continues so to cast or throw it, he shall also be liable to simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to two months. Nothing in this section applies to any case in which such ballast or other thing is cast or thrown into any such port with the consent in writing of the Conservator, or within any limits within which such act may be authorized by the Local Government.