712 ARTICLE 3.

where the prison farm, prison workshop or place for the detention and
labor of convicts is to be located, maintained or conducted under the per-
mit sought, specifying the same by definite designation and description.
Said application shall also set forth under what authority and in what
manner the persons to be detained at the prison farm, in the prison work-
shop or at the place for the detention and labor of convicts shall be de-
tained, guarded and employed, as well as the manner and mode to be
used in transporting such persons to and from said prison farm, prison
workshop or place for the detention and labor of convicts. Before filing
such application with the said County Commissioners, the applicant shall
give notice of his, its or their intention to apply for such permit by pub-
lication in one or more of the county newspapers for three successive
weeks, setting forth the substance of said petition and the day on which
he, it or they shall appear before said County Commissioners and ask
for an order on such application. In addition to such notice by publica-
tion, the applicant shall cause a copy of said advertisement to be served
upon the abutting property owners where personal service is practicable,
and where not practicable to be left on the premises with the person in
charge thereof. Within ten days after the last publication of said notice,
the applicant shall file his petition with said County Commissioners,
together with a certificate of publication of the notice aforesaid and a
certificate of the person serving such notice as to the service of the same.
Objections to the granting of such permit may be filed by any taxpayer
of Baltimore County at any time before the day fixed for the hearing on
such petition, and whether there be objections or not to the granting of
such permit the County Commissioners shall on the day fixed in such
notice hear such evidence as may be offered and pass on said application
or sustain or overrule such objections or, in their discretion, withhold
their decision until they have had an opportunity to investigate the matter.
If upon such evidence offered at said hearing and their own investigation
of the matter, the said County Commissioners shall be of the opinion
that the location named in the application is not proper, having regard
to the neighborhood and its uses, or that the safety of the citizens of Bal-
timore County would be impaired, or that the assessable basis of the
county would be materially reduced, the Commissioners shall refuse the
permit applied for, otherwise they shall grant it. If the applicant or
any taxpayer of Baltimore County who shall have filed objections to the
granting of such permit shall feel aggrieved at the action of said County
Commissioners, with reference to the granting or refusing of any such
permit, said applicant or said taxpayer shall have the right of appeal to
the Circuit Court for Baltimore County; the said appeal to be taken
within ten days of the order of the County Commissioners granting or
refusing such permit.

1916, ch. 475. B. Co. C. (1916), sec. 455. 1928, sec. 548.

548. Any person and any officer of any board, body, corporation,
municipal or otherwise, who shall proceed to establish any such prison