WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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Chapter 71.

AN ACT for the better protection of Life and

Property in the city of Baltimore.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That it shall be the duty of the

Duty to visit

Inspector of Buildings to visit and inspect all thea-

and inspect.

tres, hotels, public halls, churches and buildings

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 Bal-

timore, for the purpose of ascertaining if said build-

ings have the proper means of exit in case of fire

or panic, and if upon 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 owner or owners, trustees or

Notify in
writing.

lessees of said buildings that the proper means of

exit do not exist, and direct the said owner or own-

ers, 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.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That if any person or

persons having been notified as provided for in sec-

tion 1 of this act shall fail to comply with said

notice he, she or they shall, after the expiration of

thirty days from the date of said notice, forfeit and

Forfeiture and
fine.

pay a fine of one hundred dollars for non-compliance

therewith, and twenty-five dollars per day for each

and every day thereafter that he, she or they shall

refuse to make such improvements as prescribed in

the notice so given as provided tor in section 1 of

this act, said fines to be collected as other fines are

now or may hereafter be collected in the city of

Baltimore.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and

City Council of Baltimore shall from time to time

Provide by

provide by ordinance for such assistant or assistants

ordinance.

to the said Inspector of Buildings as in their judg-

ment may be necessary for carrying into effect the