ART. 4.] BUILDINGS. 333

ings used for public assemblages, and all manufactories employing
twenty-five or more persons, now erected or that may hereafter
be erected in the city of Baltimore, for the purpose of ascertaining
if said buildings have the proper means of exit in case of fire or
panic; and if, on examination, the said inspector of buildings
shall determine that said buildings, as herein enumerated, have
not the proper means of exit for the purposes herein, prescribed,
then it shall be the duty of the said inspector of buildings to
notify, in writing, the owners, trustees or lessees of said buildings
that the proper means of exit do not exist, and direct the said
owners, trustees or lessees of said buildings, as herein enumerated,
to so improve the same as to provide the proper means of exit, in
case of fire or panic, as in the judgment of the said inspector of
buildings he may deem proper and necessary.

1882, ch 74.

130. If any person having been notified, as provided in
the preceding section, shall fail to comply with said notice, he
shall, after the expiration of thirty days from the date, of said
notice, forfeit and pay a fine of one hundred dollars for non-com-
pliance therewith, and twenty-five dollars per day for each and
every day thereafter that he shall refuse to make such improve-
. ments as prescribed in the notice so given, as provided in the
preceding section; said fines to be collected as other fines are
now or may hereafter be collected in the city of Baltimore.

Ibid.

131. The mayor and city council of Baltimore shall, from
time to time, provide by ordinance for such assistant or assistants
to the said inspector of buildings as in their judgment may be
necessary for carrying into effect the provisions of this sub-title of
this article, and they shall fix the salary of said assistant or assist-
ants, to be paid out of the city treasury in the same manner as
other salaries are paid; and the said mayor and city council of
Baltimore shall have power, from time to time, to enact, ordain
or establish by ordinance such further and other provisions as
may be necessary in order to render secure from fire and panic
the buildings herein enumerated.