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County a three days' notice, in writing, notifying both the landlord and
the tenant that the said house shall be vacated within three days of the
receipt of said notice, and if the tenant shall refuse to vacate said prem-
ises, or in the event that said tenant shall refuse to vacate, then and in
that event, if the landlord shall not evict the tenant from the said property
and have it closed for the aforesaid immoral purposes, the State's Attor-
ney shall immediately petition the Circuit Court for Prince George's
County for an order directing the immediate closing of said houses, and
should the landlord or tenant refuse to close the same, the Courts as afore-
said, shall immediately hear and determine the cases, and in the event
that the traversers shall demand a jury trial, they shall be held in a bond
under a penalty of not less than One Thousand Dollars for their appear-
ance at the next Jury term of said Court, and upon trial and conviction
the bonds so filed shall be forfeited and a fine in the full penalty of the
bond shall be imposed and execution thereon shall immediately issue, with-
out a trial on the civil side of said Court to declare said bond forfeited,
which shall carry with it the costs of Court, and in addition to the penalty
hereby imposed all of the personal property contained in such houses,
shall immediately be taken by the Sheriff of said County and sold as an
additional penalty for the violations of this and the preceding Sections.*

1914, ch.. 608.

21. Where any person in Prince George's County is charged with keep-
ing a bawdy house or house of ill fame or with selling spirituous or fer-
mented liquor without a State or County license, before any Justice of
the Peace of said County, and a warrant issued for the arrest of the person
so charged, the said Justice of the Peace may, if so requested by the
person so charging in said warrant, and upon the oath of the said person
that he has good reason to believe that certain designated premises in
said County are being used and occupied for the purposes of violating
the law against bawdy houses and houses of ill fame or the law against
the sale of liquor in said County, issue a warrant to any sheriff, or con-
stable of said County, authorizing such officer to enter and search the
premises so designated and to seize and bring before such Justice of the
Peace some other Justice having jurisdiction any evidence of a violation
of such laws, which he may find upon such premises.

BERWTN HEIGHTS.

1896, ch. 267, sec. 1. 1924, ch. 528, sec. 1.

22. The citizens of the town of "Berwyn Heights," Prince George's.
County, Maryland, are hereby made a body corporate by the name and
style of "Commissioners of Berwyn Heights," and by that name may
have perpetual existence and succession, may sue and be sued, plead and
be impleaded, in any court of law or equity, have and use a common seal,

*There are no preceding sections in said Act.