ART. 27] CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 463

be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be liable to indictment therefor, and,
upon conviction, shall be fined a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars
for each offense.

Water Supply—Pollution of Sources of.

1904, art. 27, sec. 429. 1888, art. 27, sec. 277. 1886, ch. 6.
482. If any person shall put, or cause to be placed, any dead animal,
or part of the carcass of any dead animal, or any decayed or filthy
animal or vegetable matter, into any stream, or the tributary of any
stream, well, spring, reservoir, pond or other source from which water
or ice is drawn, taken or used for drinking or domestic purposes, or
shall knowingly suffer any sewage, washings or other offensive matters
from any privy, cess-pool, factory, trades establishment, slaughter-house,
tannery, or other place, over which he shall have control, to flow therein,
or into any drain or pipe communicating therewith, whereby the water
supply of any city, town, village, community or household, is fouled or
rendered unfit for drinking and domestic purposes, he shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof in a court of com-
petent jurisdiction, be fined not more than two hundred dollars for
every such offense; and after reasonable notice, not exceeding fifteen
days, from the State board of health, or any local sanitary authority,
to discontinue the act whereby such water supply is fouled, a further
sum of not more than fifty dollars for every day during which the
offense is continued.

See article 43, section 269, et seq.

Contracts with Public Institutions.

1908, ch. 517.

483. Every person having any official connection, either as officer,
agent, trustee or member of the board of visitors of any public institu-
tion, or private institution supported in whole or in part by money
appropriated by the State of Maryland, who shall, after April 6, 1908.
become directly or indirectly concerned or interested, for profit, in any
contract, purchase or sale of anything for, by, or on account of such
institution, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and any person
so offending shall upon conviction in any court of this State be immedi-
ately dismissed from employment or forfeit his place as such officer,
agent, trustee or member of the board of visitors, and be subject to a
fine not to exceed five hundred dollars, to be recovered as other fines are.
or imprisoned for a term in the Maryland House of Correction not to
exceed one year.