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QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY. ' [ART. 17.

provide for the mending, improving and cleansing the
same, and shall have power to prohibit and punish by
ordinance the placing any dirt, filth or other matter
therein, and may also erect lamps in any of the streets,
lanes and alleys of said town, and cause the same to be
lighted at the public expense, and may pass all laws
and ordinances for the preservation of the health of
said town, and to prevent the introduction of contagi-
ous diseases within said town or within three miles
thereof.

Nuisances, &c.

38. The said commissioners shall have full power to
cause any nuisance to be abated, upon complaint or
view, if they shall be satisfied it is detrimental to the
health of the inhabitants of said town or injurious to
the trade of said town, and for this purpose are empow-
ered and directed to enter upon any private grounds or
premises within the corporate limits of said town; and
the said commissioners shall see that the town is kept
in a cleanly and sanitary condition, and to this end are
empowered and directed once in a month, and oftener
if they shall deem it necessary, beginning with the
month of April and ending with the month of Novem-
ber, in each and every year, to enter upon and examine
into the condition of all the private grounds and pre-
mises within the corporate limits of said town, and if
in their judgment any such grounds and premises are
not in a cleanly and sanitary condition, they shall
forthwith cause a written notification to be served by
the bailiff upon the person or persons occupying or
having charge of said grounds and premises, to put the
same in a cleanly and sanitary condition; and if said
person or persons shall fail or refuse for ten days after
the service of such notification to obey the same, the

Fine

said commissioners shall impose a fine upon such per-
son or persons so offending of not less than one dollar
and not more than five dollars, in their discretion; and
in like manner an additional fine for every successive
ten days' failure or refusal to obey said notification,
until said grounds and premises are put in a cleanly
and sanitary condition, unless said person or persons
occupying or having charge of said grounds or premises