EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 180.
AN ACT to provide for the safety of guests and occupants
of hotels and apartment houses in the City of Baltimore.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land. That any building or buildings now used as hotels or

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apartment houses, or that shall hereafter be used as such,
shall have installed in said building or buildings large fire
gongs, which shall be rung only in case of fire or danger of
fire, so as to notify and warn the occupants thereof.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the gongs provided for in

Fire gongs
Installed.

the preceding section shall be of such size as shall be desig-
nated by the Inspector of Buildings of Baltimore city, and.
shall be placed one at each stair landing and one at each
end of every corridor or hall, and so put up, arranged and
connected that each gong can be sounded from the main
office.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That any owner, agent,

Size of gongs.

lessee or manager of any building or buildings used or occu-
pied as a hotel or apartment house, that shall neglect or
refuse to comply with the provisions of this Act shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment and
conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $250 nor more
than $1,000.

Guilty of mis-
demeanor.

SEC 4. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of
this Act shall not apply to buildings of twelve rooms or
less.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the first day of July in the year nineteen hundred and
six.
Approved March 27, 1906.

CHAPTER 181.

AN ACT to amend the charter and extend and enlarge the
powers of the Jefferson Permanent Building and Loan
Association of Baltimore City.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Not to apply to
certain build-
ings.

land, That the charter of the Jefferson Permanent Building
and Loan Association of Baltimore City, incorporated under
the provisions of the general laws of Maryland, as the same
appears by certificate of incorporation, filed and recorded

Charter
amended.