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them to comply with any or all the requisitions of the notice,
or otherwise to abate the nuisance within a time specified in the
order, or an order both requiring abatement and prohibiting
the recurrence of the nuisance, as far as practicable.

1888, art. 43. sec. 37. 1886, ch. 12, sec. 3.

76. Whenever the nuisance is created or maintained by
more than one person, firm or coporation, the said judge may
make such order with reference to the abatement of the same,
and the person or persons by whom the same shall be executed,
and by whom and in what proportions the cost of such abate-
ment or work shall be paid, as to him may seem reasonable;
provided, that the said judge may suspend his final determina-
tion on condition that the person, firm or corporation com-
plained of shall undertake to adopt within a reasonable time
such means as the said judge may deem practicable, and may
order to be carried into effect for abating such nuisance, or for
mitigating or preventing any effluvia prejudicial to health which
may arise therefrom.

Ibid, sec 38. 1886, ch. 12, sec. 4.

77. Any person, firm or corporation not obeying an order
made by any one of the aforesaid judges, to comply with the
requisitions of the State board of health or otherwise, to abate
the nuisance complained of, shall, if all due diligence has not
been used to carry out such order, be liable to a penalty not
. exceeding ten dollars per day during his or their default;
and any person, firm or corporation knowingly or wilfully
acting contrary to an order of abatement or prohibition shall
be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars per day
during such contrary action; and the person, corporation or
corporations not obeying or wilfully acting contrary to such
order of the judge shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; such
offense in the city of Baltimore shall be prosecuted by the
arrest of the offender for such offense, and by holding him to
appear in or committing him for trial in the criminal court of
Baltimore, which court shall have jurisdiction in the said cases
to try and dispose of the same in the same manner as other
criminal cases may be tried or proceeded with or disposed of;
or such offense may be prosecuted by indictment in such court ;
such offense in any county of this State shall be prosecuted by
the arrest of the offender for such offense, and by holding him
to bail to appear in or committing him for trial in the circuit
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