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BALTIMORE CITY.

persons as shall be appointed by the special commissioners to
receive and collect the same, such sum or sums of money as
the said special commissioners and the assessors of said town
shall settle and assess, as & full compensation to the public,
until such porch, cellar door or step, to him, her or them re-
spectively belonging, shall be reduced to the limits aforesaid,
or till removed or taken away ; and every owner or owners of
any house or houses, whereunto any spout or gutter shall, at the
time of publication hereof, be so fixed and placed, that the
waters thereby discharged, may incommode persons passing
the said streets, lanes or alleys, shall, and they are hereby re-
quired, forthwith to remove, or effectually to alter or amend the
same ; and the said special commissioners are hereby further
authorized and empowered, to remove, or cause to be removed,
all manner of obstruction to the passage through the said streets,
lanes and alleys, which they shall find remaining in the same
an unnecessary length of time.

Penalty on
exhibiting
without
license.

SEC. 50, And be U enacted, That should any person or per-
sons not authorized by this act, exhibit any show, play, or
public entertainment, without a license first obtained, he, she or
they, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty-five pounds, to
be recovered as debts not exceeding five pounds.
The residue of this act has yielded to the ordinances of the corporation,
passed by virtue of the charters granted to the city of Baltimore.

* 1792, ch.
17-

AN ACT Supplementary to an Act,* entitled, an Act for the more effectual
Paving the Streets of Baltimore Town, in Baltimore County, and for
other purposes, — 1792, ch. 21.

Certain
chimneys
deemed
nuisances,
fee.

SEC.6. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons
whatsoever shall hereafter erect or build any chimney within
the limits of Baltimore town of less width than fourteen inches
square throughout the funnel, the same shall be, and is hereby
declared to be, a common nuisance ; ^nd if the person or per-
sons by or for whom the same shall have been built or erected,
shall not pull down "and destroy the same within three months
after request by the said special commissioners, or some one of
them, and shall be thereof convicted by a presentment of the
grand inquest of Baltimore county, he or they shall be fined,
at the discretion of the justices of the criminal court of the said
county, in a sum not exceeding fifty pounds current money.

1782. ch.
17.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act to amend and explain the
thirty-third section of an Act/ entitled, an Act for the more effectual
Paving the Streets of Baltimore Town, in Baltimore County. — 1807,
ch. 116.

Nothing
contained
former acts
to affect

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
nothing contained in the aforesaid acts of assembly, or either of
them, shall be construed to extend to, or in any manner affect,