BALTIMORE COUNTY. 555

aisles or passageways in the auditorium of said halls, churches or places
of amusement by placing therein any benches, chairs or stools or other
articles that may prevent free ingress and egress during the hours that
said places may be open to the public. Said owners or lessees, or their
agents, are required to keep unlocked and unobstructed at all hours during
the time said halls, churches, schools or places of amusement are open to
the public, all doors giving ingress or egress, and no hindrance, such aa
locks, bars or gratings of any kind shall be allowed to obstruct or prevent
ingress and easy- egress through the same, and all doors of exit shall be

so constructed as to open outwardly at such exits. Owners or lessees, or
any person holding under them, or their agents, violating any of the pro-
visions aforesaid shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof by the Circuit Court for Baltimore County be fined by the court
before which such conviction is had for any violation a sum not exceeding
five hundred dollars, to be paid to the County Commissioners, and recov-
ered as other fines in this State. It is made the special duty of the Judges
of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County to especially charge the grand
jury of said county, upon the execution of the foregoing provisions, and
the police authorities of said districts are especially charged with the
execution thereof, and to that end shall direct such frequent examinations
by some of their officers as the County Commissioners, may require of all
such places. It shall not be lawful in said districts for any person, agent,
owner or proprietor of any sweatshop, manufacutring establishment or
factory where four or more persons are employed, to use any coal oil,
gasoline or any other explosive or inflammable compound for the purpose
of lighting or heating in any form, except under a special permit from

the County Commissioners of Baltimore County, granted for that pur-
pose, for a period not exceeding one year, the same to be renewed from
time to time by said County Commissioners in their discretion; and any
person, agent, owner or proprietor violating this provision shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof be fined by the court before
which such conviction is had, for every violation the sum of one hundred
dollars and costs, and stand committed until such fines and costs be paid.
The owner or owners of any such home or building used as a sweatshop,

manufacturing establishment or factory where four or more persons are em-
ployed in said districts, on other than the first floor of such house or build-
ing, and the owners or lessees of any public hall, church, school, or place of
amusement in said districts where persons are supposed to congregate on
other than the first floor of the same, shall provide suitable fire escapes

for the same; and if any owner or owners, or lessees of any house or build-
ing so used fail to make or provide a fire escape as aforesaid, such owner
or owners, or lessees, shall pay a fine of two hundred dollars, to be paid
to the County Commissioners as aforesaid, and recovered as other fines
in this State, or be imprisoned in the county jail for sixty days, or subject
to both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.