Penalty for rash navigation and stacking of timber.

Whoever navigates, anchors, moors or fastens any vessel or raft, or stacks any timber, in a manner so rash or negligent as to damage a public ferry, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both; and the toll keeper or other person lawfully engaged in the management or conduct of such ferry may seize and detain such vessel, raft or timber pending the inquiry and assessment hereinafter mentioned.