ART. 43] NUISANCES. 1105

1010, ch. 724 (p. 130).

102. The proprietors or managers of shirt factories in the State of
Maryland are hereby required to sprinkle the floors of said factories
every morning with water, and any proprietor or manager failing to
comply with the provisions of thiy section shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined the sum of ten dollars,
and cost of prosecution, for each and every offense, one-half of said fine
to go to the informer, balance to be paid into the treasury of the State.

Nuisances.

1004, art. 43, sec. 74. 1888, art. 43, sec. 35. 1880, ch. 12, sec. 1.
103. Whenever any water-course, well, spring, open ditch, glitter,
cess-pool, drain, privy-pit, pig-pen or other place, or any accumulation
or deposit of offensive or noxious matters, or any house, building, trades'
establishment or manufacturing place, is certified to the state board of
health by any two legally qualified medical practitioners, or any three
or more persons affected thereby, to be in a state of nuisance dangerous
to health, the said board of healtth shall forthwith investigate the mat-
ter, and if it shall be found that the nuisance complained of is such as
to injuriously affect any adjacent property or district, or is calculated
to endanger the health or life of any person, the said board shall
through its proper officer, serve a notice in writing on the person, firm or
corporation, by whose act, default or sufferance the nuisance arises
or continues; or if such person, firm or corporation can not be found,
or the owner or occupier of the premises on which the nuisance arises
or exists, requiring him or them to abate the same within a time to
be specified in the notice, and to execute such works and do such things
as may be necessary for that purpose.
See sections 37, 38, 99 and 220.

Ibid. sec. 75. 1888, art. 43, sec. 36. 1886, ch. 12, sec. 2.
104. If any person, firm or corporation, on whom a notice to abate
a nuisance has been served, refuses or neglects to comply with any of
the requirements thereof, within the time specified in such notice, or
if the nuisance, although abated since the service of the notice, is
likely to recur on the same premises, the state board of health may,
through its proper officers, make or cause a complaint relating to such
nuisance, to be made to any judge of the circuit court for the county
in which such nuisance shall exist, or to the judge of the circuit court
or circuit court No. 2 of Baltimore city, as the case may be j and
such judge shall thereupon issue a summons requiring the party or
parties on whom the notice was served to appear before him, and if
satisfied, after hearing said party or parties, or ex parte, in case of
the default of any of them to appear, that the alleged nuisance exists,
or although abated, is likely to recur on the same premises, he shall
make an order on such person, firm or corporation requiring him or
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