EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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4. That the sum of six thousand dollars per annum be anc

Appropriation

the same is hereby appropriated for the formation and support

for same.

of farmers' institutes in this State ; and that the Comptroller

be and he is hereby authorized to issue his warrant annually

upon the Treasurer of the State for the said sum of money

out of any fund not otherwise appropriated ; that the said sum

shall be payable to the order of the Maryland Agricultural

College on or after the first of October of each fiscal year

and that the first yearly pavment shall be made during the

fiscal year ending September 30, 1904.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 55S.

AN ACT to prevent and abate certain nuisances and annoy-

ances in Taneytown, in Carroll County, Maryland, and pro-

vide a penalty for violation thereof.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That it shall not be lawful for any owner, lessee or trus-

Abating
nuisances.

tee of any land or building in the limits of Taneytown, in Car-

roll County. Maryland, or for any other person having the

care or control of any land or building in said town to know-

ingly permit any excrement, filth or contaminated water from

water-closets, urinals, cesspools, privies, privy vaults, hog

pens, barn yards or stable yards, or any other filth or filthy

waste water to discharge, flow, percolate or in any other man-

ner to escape, directly or indirectly from any such land or build-

ing on or into any of the streets, squares, lanes or alleys o:

said town, or on or into any open, ditch, gutter, drain or sewer

in any of said streets, squares, lanes or alleys.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That upon conviction before the

Burgess of Taneytown, or any justice of the peace residing

Sentences

in the limits of Taneytown, of a violation of any of the pro-

upon convic-
tion of law-

visions of the preceding section, the person or persons so con-

breakers.

victed shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than fifty

dollars and costs of prosecution, and, in default of payment

thereof, may be committed to the county jail of Carroll County

or to the town lockup for a period of not more than thirty

days, or until the fine and costs be paid.