HEALTH 1913

of Baltimore City of appropriate jurisdiction against the State Board of
Health as defendant, to vacate and set aside any such order or regulation
on the ground that such order or regulation is unlawful or unreasonable,
or that said order is not necessary for the protection of the public health or
comfort, in which action a copy of the complaint shall be served with the
summons. The answer of the State Board of Health shall be filed within
10 days, whereupon said cause shall be at issue, and stand ready for trial
upon 15 days' notice to either party. All such actions shall have precedence
over any civil cause of a different nature, except appeals from an order of
the Public Service Commission, and the said Courts shall always be deemed
open for trial thereof, and the same shall be tried and determined as other
civil actions. Either party to said action, within 20 days after service of
a copy of the order or judgment of any Court of Baltimore City or of the
Circuit Court of any County, may appeal to the Court of Appeals of
Maryland.
See notes to sec. 378.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 346. 1912, sec. 287. 1914, ch. 810, sec. 19.

390. If any County, municipality, water, sewerage or sanitary district,
corporation, company or institution, or officer thereof upon whom the duty
to act is cast, or any person, shall fail to comply with any order of the State
Board of Health before the expiration of the time specified for compliance
with said order, or in case of appeal or appeals, for a period of ten days after
final judgment affirming the Board's order shall have been entered, to obey
said order or in good faith to begin to obey the same; such County, munici-
pality, district, corporation, company or institution, or officer thereof, or
person, so failing shall become liable for and forfeit to the State of Mary-
land a sum of not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars, with an
extra fine of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars per day for each
day beyond the time limit that said order is not complied with. All penalties
are to be recovered by the State in civil action brought by the State of Mary-
land, and such penalty when collected shall be paid into the State Treasury.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 347. 1912, sec. 288. 1914, ch. 810, sec. 20.

391. The State Board of Health shall be empowered to employ and fix
the compensation of such experts, engineers, clerical and other assistants
as it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this sub-title. Pro-
vided, however, that all the expenses, for salaries or otherwise, incurred
under the provisions of this sub-title shall not exceed in the aggregate the
amount appropriated by this sub-title.

1939, ch. 320.

392. There is hereby created a Commission consisting of three mem-
bers to act jointly with commissions appointed for like purposes by the State
of West Virginia, the Commonwealths of Pennsylvania and Virgina, and
the District of Columbia, and an additional three members to be appointed
by the President of the United States and which, together with the other
commissions appointed as hereinbefore mentioned, shall constitute and be
known as the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin. The
said Commission for the State of Maryland shall consist of the Governor of
the State and two members to be named by the Governor, who shall be
actual residents in the Potomac River Drainage Basin. The terms of the