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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 jurisdic-
tion, be fined not more than two hundred dollars for every such
offense; and after reasonable 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 offense is continued.
II.
JURISDICTION, PROCEDURE AND SENTENCE.
Jurisdiction.
1888, art 27, sec. 278. 1860, art. 30, sec. 88. 1809, ch. 138, sec 17.
430. 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 acces-
sory to murder or felony committed shall be tried by the court
within whose jurisdiction such person became accessory.
Stout v. State, 76 Md. 317.
Ibid. sec. 279. 1860, art. 30, sec 89. 1809, ch. 138, sec. 18.
431. If a person be feloniously stricken or poisoned on the
waters of the Chesapeake bay, and not within the body of any
county, and within one year thereafter die of the same stroke
or poison within any county of this State; or if any person be
feloniously stricken or poisoned in any county of this State,
and within one year thereafter die of the same stroke or poison
on the waters of the Chesapeake bay, and not within the body
of any county, the offender, his aiders, abettors and comforters,
or any person accessory thereto, shall be tried in the court
within whose jurisdiction such county lies where the death
happened, or the stroke or poison was given.
Ibid. sec. 280. 1860, art. 30, sec. 90. 1807, ch. 165, sec. 1.
1809, ch. 138, sec. 19.
432. Any person who shall commit any crime, offense or
misdemeanor upon the waters of the Chesapeake bay, within
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