208 BALTIMORE COUNTY. [ART. 3.

are repealed, annulled and made void, except in cases where the
companies incorporated by any of such charters have erected
works and commenced the manufacture of gas.

HEALTH AND SANITARY OFFICERS.

1883, ch. 186. 1884, ch. 512. 1886, ch. 53.

117. The county commissioners are authorized to appoint
annually three experienced physicians, one a resident of Canton,
one a resident of Catonsville, and one a resident of Towson, who
shall act respectively as sanitary officers for Canton and vicinity,
Catonsville and vicinity, Towson and vicinity; and they shall
have power to remove them upon their failure or neglect to
perform their duties, and to fill any vacancy that may occur
from time to time in said offices; and said sanitary officers shall
be entitled to receive, respectively, from the county commissioners,
the sum of three hundred dollars annually, payable in quarterly
instalments.

Ibid.

118. They shall have the general care of the sanitary interest
of the residents of Canton, Catonsville, Towson, and their several
vicinities. They shall make sanitary investigations and inquiries
respecting the cause of disease, especially epidemics, and the
causes of mortalities; they shall inquire into and investigate all
nuisances affecting the health of the citizens of Canton, Catons-
ville, Towson, and their vicinities, and for this purpose they are
authorized to go upon any premises or into any house in Canton,
Catonsville, Towson, and their vicinities; and upon a full report
of either of them to the county commissioners, of the existence
of any public or private nuisance in Canton, Catonsville, Towson,
and their vicinities, they are authorized and empowered, upon
the approval and direction of the said county commissioners, to
apply to the circuit court for Baltimore county, or to either of
the judges of said court, by bill or petition, in the name of either
of said sanitary officers, for an injunction to restrain and prevent
such nuisance; or upon the said report of said sanitary officers of
the existence of a nuisance, either of said sanitary officers may
be directed by the county commissioners to give notice to the
owner or occupier of any land or premises upon which said nuis-
ance may exist, to remove the same within forty-eight hours