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time levy upon the assessable property within the taxable limits
of said city any sum which may'be necessary to discharge the
principal and interest of said debt, provided not more than two
thousand dollars be levied in any one year.

138. If any person shall wilfully pollute said water by throw-
ing any dead animal or other impure substance into the same,
or by swimming, bathing or washing themselves, or by washing
clothes or the skins of dead animals, or any other impure things,
therein, or by erecting any necessary or other nuisance so near
the said Water as to pollute the same, he shall forfeit to the said
city a sum not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence, to be
recovered by summons before any justice of the peace for
Frederick county, to be issued against the person BO offending,
if a free man, otherwise against the husband, father or master
of the person so offending, who shall be answerable therefor;

and the person so offending shall be obliged to remove such
nuisance, or pay the sum of ten dollars for every day the same
shall continue, to be recovered as aforesaid for the use of said city.

139. Any person who shall designedly injure the said water
works, or any part thereof, or obstruct the passage of the water
therein, shall for every offence forfeit the sum of twenty dollars,
to be recovered in the manner and for the use mentioned in the
preceding section.

140. If any person, being first duly cautioned, shall use or in
any manner meddle with the water in said water works, whether
obtained from hydrants or otherwise, such person not being a
water renter at the time, or licensed by said city, he shall forfeit
the sum of six dollars, to be recovered and applied as directed
in the two preceding sections.

141. The sheriff of Frederick county shall receive and aafe
keep in the jail of said county all persons who shall be com-
mitted thereto for a breach of any of the ordinances of said city,
according to the tenor of the commitment, and in the aame
manner and under the same regulations as persons committed
for a violation of the laws of the State.

142. The mayor and aldermen may provide by ordinance for
taking up, fining or committing to the workhouse in said city
all vagrants and loose and disorderly persons, and persons having
no visible means of support and livelihood, and common dig-