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BALTIMORE CITY.

only in such parts ancl places as shall be appointed and agreed
on by the special commissioners, every such offender shall
forfeit and pay for every such offence, the sum of five shillings,
and pay the costs of removing the same ; and if any person or
persons, save the said special commissioners, shall hereafter
remove or pull down any bar, chain, rope, or fence, which the
said special commissioners shall hereafter cause to be set up, in
or across the said streets, lanes or alleys, for the preservation of
the pavement then newly made, every such person who shall so
offend, shall forfeit and pay the sum of three pounds for every
such offence.

On distillers
&c. dis-
charging
nauseous
liquors, &c.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That if any distiller, soap-
boiler or tallow-chandler, within the said town, shall discharge
any foul or nauseous liquor, from any still-house or work-shop,
so that such liquor shall pass into or along any of the streets,
lanes or alleys of said town, or if any soap-boiler or tallow-
chandler shall keep, collect or use, or cause to be kept, collected
or used, in any of the built parts of the town, any stale, putrid or
stinking fat, grease, or other offensive matter, or if any butcher
shall keep at or near his slaughter-house any garbage or filth
whatsoever, so as to annoy any neighbour, or any person what-
soever, he, she or they, being thereof convicted before any
justice of the peace of the said town, shall forfeit and pay for
every such offence, the sum of thirty-five shillings.

On persons
laying dead
carcasses
on the com-
mon, &c.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons
shall, after the publication hereof, cast, carry, draw out or lay,
any dead horse or other dead carcass, or any excrement or filth
from vaults, privies or necessary houses, and shall leave such
carcass, carrion or filth, without burying the same a sufficient
depth in the ground, on any part of the commons of said town,
on or near any of the streets, lanes, alleys or highways within
the said town, or district adjoining the town, every person or
persons so offending, and convicted thereof before any justice of
the peace, shall forfeit and pay, for every such offence, the sum
of thirty shillings.

On throw-
ing filth
into the
river, &c.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons
shall, after the publication hereof, cast or throw any carrion or
filth whatsoever, or other annoyance or obstruction, into the
river in said town, or into the basin, and shall thereof be con-
victed before any justice of the peace, every such offender shall,
for every such offence, forfeit and pay a sum of money not ex-
ceeding forty shillings as the said justice shall think reasonable.

Carriages
to have
broad
wheels, &c.

SEC. 32. And whereas, the paving the streets of Baltimore town
will be attended with a great expense to the inhabitants thereof,
and it is necessary that due care be taken to preserve the pave-
ments made or to be made from any and every avoidable and
unnecessary injury: And whereas nothing can bo more de-