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or standpipe for said water works, so as to pollute the same, shall upon
conviction of said offense be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five
($25.00) dollars nor more than three hundred ($300.00) dollars for
each offense, to be recovered by the Commissioners of Ellicott City before
a Justice of the Peace, as other fines are collected, or to imprisonment
in the Howard County Jail or in the Maryland House of Correction for
a term of not less than six months nor more than eighteen months, or both
fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Justice of the Peace;
one-half of such fine to go to the informer and the balance to the Com-
missioners of Ellicott City for the purposes of this Act.

1914, ch. 836, sec. 81T.

174. There is hereby imposed upon each and every corporation occu-
pying or using any portion of the streets of Ellicott City with railroad or
street railway track or tracks, the obligation to pave the space within said
track or tracks and for a space of two feet on the outside of each outer
rail thereof with belgian blocks, in conformity with the paving heretofore
done on said streets by the Mayor and City Council of Ellicott City, or
which may hereafter be done by the authorities of Ellicott City. The
Commissioners of Ellicott City shall give any such corporation or corpo-
rations a reasonable notice to begin said work and a reasonable time in
which to complete said work; and, if said paving is not done by said
corporation or corporations within said reasonable time, the Commission-
ers of Ellicott City may have the same done and charge the cost of the
same to said corporation or corporations. The obligation hereby imposed
shall be a lien upon the property of said corporation or corporations to the
same extent as ordinary taxes against the property of said corporation or
corporations, and may be enforced or collected by the same remedies as
are used for the enforcement and collection of taxes, and the payment
thereof may be enforced by the Commissioners of Ellicott City by a suit
at law or by any other remedy provided by any law or ordinance appro-
priate for said purpose. All of such remedies shall be cumulative.

SAVING CLAUSE.

1914, ch. 836, sec. U.

175. Nothing herein contained shall affect or in any manner make
invalid any of the present ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of
Ellicott City; nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to release
any person, persons, or corporation from the payment of any taxes now
owing by him, her, it or them to the Mayor and City Council of Ellicott
City; nothing herein contained shall affect the tenure of office of the
present Mayor and City Council of Ellicott City, who, by virtue of their
election, shall hold office until the Commissioners of Ellicott City are
duly elected and qualified; nothing herein contained shall be construed
in such a manner as to dissolve the corporation known as the Mayor and
City Council of Ellicott City, until after the election and qualification of