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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

or any accumulation or deposit of offensive or
noxious matters, or any house, building, trades'
establishment or manufacturing place, is cer-
tified to the State Board of Health by any two
legally qualified medical practitioners, or any
three or more persons affected thereby, to be
in a state of nuisance dangerous to health, the
said Board of Health shall forthwith investi-
gate the matter, and if it shall be found that

State Board
of Health - To
serve notice,
&c.

the nuisance complained of is such as to injuri-
ously affect any adjacent property or district,
or is calculated to endanger the health or life of
any person, the said Board shall, through its
proper officer, serve a notice in writing on the
person er persons, firm or corporation, by whose
a,ct, default or sufferance the nuisance arises
or continues, or if such person or persons, firm
or corporation cannot be found, on the owner
or occupier of the premises on which the nuis-
ance arises or exists, requiring him, them or it
to abate the same within a time to be specified
in the notice, and to execute such works and do
such things as may be necessary for that pur-
pose.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any person
or persons, firm or corporation, on whom a
notice to abate a nuisance has been served,
refuses or neglects to comply with any of the
requirements thereof, within the time speci-
fied in such notice, or if the nuisance, although
abated since the service of the notice, is likely
to recur on the same premises, the State Board
of Health may, through its proper officers, make
or cause a complaint relating to such nuisance,

Judge to is-
sue summons.

to be made to any Judge of the Circuit Coiirt
for the county in which such nuisance shall
exist, or to the Judge of the Circuit Court of
Baltimore city, as the case may be; and such
Judge shall thereupon issue a summons, re-
quiring the party or parties on whom the notice
was served, to appear before him, and if satis-
fied, after hearing>aid party or parties, or ex-
parte, in case of the default of any of them
to appear, that the alleged nuisance exists, or,