1020 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

title "Easton," as amended by chapter 458 of the Acts passed
at the January session of 1906, to follow section 97BB, and
to be known as sections 97cc and 97DD, same being to estab-
lish a standard of illuminating power and purity of gas
supplied to the people of Easton.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the following new sections be added to article 21 of
the .Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Talbot
County," sub-title "Easton," as amended by chapter 458 of the
Acts passed at the January session of 1906, to follow section
97BB and to be known as sections 97cc and 97DD, same being
to establish a standard of illuminating power and purity of
gas supplied to the people of Easton.

97cc. The illuminating gas furnished to the people in the
town of Easton by any person or persons, corporation or gas
company, for which a charge shall be made, shall have an illu-
minating power, with an open burner, of not less than twenty
(20) sperm candles, of six to the pound, and burning at the
rate of one hundred and twenty grains of spermacetti per hour,
tested at any place and at any distance from the place of manu-
facture, which may be selected by the person making the test,
by an open burner consuming five cubic feet of gas per hour,
and shall, as regards purity, comply with the standard now or
hereafter established by law or ordinance. The gas shall not
contain more than twenty grains of sulphur in any form in
one hundred cubic feet of gas.

97DD. If the illuminating gas supplied by any person or per-
sons, corporation or gas company, for public use in the town
of Easton, for which a charge shall be made, shall be at any
time of less illuminating power or of less purity than accord-
ing to the standard established by section 97cc of this Act,
it shall be so reported to the Mayor and Council of Easton by
the person or inspector selected to make the test, or tests, and
the person or persons, corporation or gas company, supplying
the same shall be subject to a penalty of fifty dollars and costs
for each and every day that such violation shall continue; pro-
vided, however, that if it shall appear that such deviation from
the above named standard .could not have been prevented by
ordinary care and prudence, but was occasioned by some un-
avoidable cause (assuming that the plant is maintained in
proper condition) then the said penalty shall not be enforced
while such unavoidable cause shall continue; provided, how-
ever, if the offense becomes practically continuous the same
shall be sufficient cause and authority for the Mayor and
Council, in their discretion, by ordinance, to annul the fran-