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LAWS OP MARYLAND.

byways and highways in their respective districts, and

that upon the report of said sanitary officers of the

conditions of any alley, byway or highway being prej-

udicial to the health of the neighborhood, it shall be

Duty of com-
missioners.

the duty of said county commissioners to examine the

same, and have made such repairs in the grading, paving
and draining of such alley, byway or highway as may

be necessary, taxing the property binding such alley

one-half the cost of said improvements.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That it shall be unlaw-

ful for any person to keep a hog-pen or pig-pen within

Location of
hog pen.

fifty feet of any dwelling-house, well or spring, the

water of which may be used for drinking and cooking

purposes, in the said Woodberry, Towsontown, Wa-

verly, Canton, Clifton and Charles street extended,

Penalty.

and their vicinities, under a penalty of not less than

ten dollars, and the said sanitary officers shall imme-

diately remove the same.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That all fines and pen-

alties under the provisions of this act shall be collected

Fines — how
collected.

before a justice of the peace of Baltimore county in

manner prescribed by section two of act of eighteen

hundred and eighty-two.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of

Inconsistencies
repealed.

acts inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby

repealed.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from its passage.

Approved April 8, 1884.