550 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

at the time prescribed for the appearance in such court of the
person so charged. This section not to apply to Allegany county.
State v. Glenn, 54 Md. 600.

Water Supply—Pollution of Sources of.

1886, ch. 6.

277. 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 drink-
ing 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 offence; 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 offence is con-
tinued.

II.

JURISDICTION, PROCEDURE AND SENTENCE.

Jurisdiction.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 88. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 17.

278. If any person be feloniously stricken or poisoned in one
county, and die of the same stroke or poison in another county
within one year thereafter, the offender shall be tried in the court
within whose jurisdiction such county lies where the stroke or poison
was given; and in like manner an accessory to murder or felony
committed, shall be tried by the court within whose jurisdiction
such person became accessory.