ART. 1.] ALLEGANY COUNTY. 11

15. The said inquisition shall be confirmed by the said court,
if no sufficient cause to the contrary be shown, and when con-
firmed shall be recorded by said clerk at the expense of the
corporation.

16. If the said inquisition be set aside, the said court may
direct another inquisition in the manner hereinafter prescribed.

17. Every such inquisition shall describe the property taken,
and the bounds of the land condemned, and the quantity or
duration of the interest in the same condemned for the corpo-
ration, and such valuation when paid or tendered to the owner
of said property, or his attorney, shall entitle said corporation
to the estate and property so valued as fully as if the same had
been conveyed by the owner thereof.

18. If any person shall wilfully pollute said water by throw-
ing any dead animal or other impure substance into the same,
or by swimming, bathing, or washing themselves, or by washing
clothes or the skins of dead animals, or any other impure things
therein, or by erecting any necessary or other nuisance so near
the said water as to pollute the same, he shall forfeit the said
city a sum not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence, to be
recovered by summons before any justice of the peace for
Allegany county, to be issued against the person so offending,
if a free man, otherwise against the husband, father or master of
the person so offending, who shall be answerable therefor; and
the person so offending shall be obliged to remove such nui-
sance, to pay the sum of ten dollars for every day the same shall
continue, to be recovered as aforesaid for the use of said city.

19. Any person who shall designedly injure the said water
works, or any part thereof, or obstruct the passage of the water
therein, shall for every offence forfeit the sum of twenty dollars,
to be recovered in the manner and for the use mentioned in the
preceding section.

20. If any person, being first duly cautioned, shall use or in
any manner meddle with the water in said water works, whether