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Commissioners may direct prosecutions for nuisances, etc.
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82.—The Commissioners at a public meeting may, and they are hereby empowered, if they think fit, in any case which can under this Act or otherwise by law be prosecuted by them before a court of summary jurisdiction, to direct prosecutions before any such court in respect of offences done, committed, made or continued in or upon the public river, waters or streams of the said river, port or harbour, or in or upon the quays, wharves, roads, approaches, piers, embankments, reclamations, lands or works adjoining thereto, or for any injury or damage occasioned to the navigation of the said rivers, waters or streams, and that whether such injury or damage shall be attributable to any act done within the limits of the said river, port or harbour or not; and to recover any penalty or forfeiture incurred under the provisions of this Act or of any of the Acts incorporated therewith, and to defray the costs of any such proceedings out of the funds an belonging to the Commissioners.
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