1274 ARTICLE 27 :

An. Code, 1924, sec. 531. 1912, sec. 480. 1904, sec. 427 1894, ch...481, sec. 276A.

619. The officers and board of directors of the Friendly Inn of Balti-
more City, and the officers and directors and managers of any other chari-
table corporation heretofore formed, or which may be hereafter formed,
under either the general incorporation law of this State or by special act,
for the charitable purpose, in whole or in part, of supplying food and lodg-
ing to the needy without demanding or receiving compensation in money
therefor, may, and the said officers, directors and managers are hereby
authorized and empowered to require any person applying to them for, and
receiving from them, either food or lodging in any house, home or build-
ing maintained by the said charitable corporation to perform within
twenty-four hours thereafter a reasonable amount of labor in return
therefor, provided that the performance of such labor be accepted by such
person as a condition upon which said food or lodging is given and re-
ceived; and if any person refuses or neglects, when so required, to per-
form such labor suited to his age, strength and capacity; in return for the
food or lodging so asked for and received by him, within the time above
specified, he shall be deemed a vagrant and be punishable as such:

Water Supply—Pollution of Sources of.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 533. 1912, sec. 482. 1904, sec. 429. 1888, .sec. 277. 1886, ch. 6.

620. 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 competent jurisdiction, be fined not
more than two hundred dollars for every such offense; and after reason-
able 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 art. 43, sec. 372, et seq.

Contracts with Public Institutions.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 534. 1912, sec. 483. 1908, ch. 517.

621. 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 appro-
priated 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 immediately dismissed
from employment or forfeit his place as such officer, agent, trustee or mem-