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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

tions as they may adopt. To regulate the height, construction

and inspection of all new buildings hereafter erected in said

district. To regulate the limits within which it shall be lawful

to erect steps, porticoes, bay-windows or other structural or-

naments to houses fronting on any of the highways, streets,

avenues, lanes or alleys of said district, and generally to adopt

and enforce for the whole of said district or for thickly popu-

lated portions thereof all necessary regulations or rules for the

Prescribing

aforegoing purposes, and to prescribe fines and penalties for

fines, etc.

violations thereof, and provide the manner in which the same

shall be collected ; provided, however, that no such rules and

regulations so adopted by said County Commissioners as afore-

said shall be deemed valid or effective until the same shall have

been formally accepted by the said County Commissioners at

a regular meeting and recorded in a book kept in their office

for that purpose, and until said rules and regulations shall

have been published at least once in one of the county papers

published in Baltimore County; and it shall be the duty of

the said County Commissioners to cause said rules and regula-

tions adopted by them as aforesaid to be so recorded in a book

or books kept for that purpose in their office and to be pub-

lished at least once in a county paper published in Baltimore

County as aforesaid, and when so recorded and published all

persons shall be deemed and taken to have notice thereof and

no actual notice need be proven. And it shall further be the

Printed copies

duty of the said County Commissioners to cause to be printed

of rules and
regulations.

for general distribution a sufficient number of copies of said

rules and regulations when so adopted, recorded and pub-

lished as aforesaid, with a printed certificate by the chief clerk

of said County Commissioners to the effect that said rules and

regulations have been so recorded and published as aforesaid,

and said printed copy of such regulations, with certificate as

aforesaid, shall be deemed prima facie evidence of such rules

and regulations whenever it may be necessary to prove the

existence of the same in any judicial proceedings. And the

power is given said County Commissioners to change or amend

from time to time, as may be necessary, such rules and regu-

lations in whole or in part, in which event the same shall be

valid and effective when recorded and published as aforesaid.

And the said County Commissioners in addition to the remedies

provided for in this Act, shall have the right to enforce said

regulations and the provisions of this Act and prevent infrac-

tions thereof by an application to the Circuit Court for Balti-

more County in equity, for an injunction, and a breach or

threatened breach of this Act, or said regulations shall be