392 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Commissioners of Baltimore county a fine or penalty of fifty
dollars where said building is of the value of one thousand
dollars or less, and an additional penalty of twenty-five dollars
for each additional thousand dollars in value, said fine or
penalty to be a lien on the building and to be collected by
the said County Commissioners in an action of debt brought
in their name before any justice of the peace of said county,
or by proceedings in equity for the enforcement of such lien.

23. The County Commissioners of Baltimore county shall
have full power and authority to direct in what part of
the Twelfth District buildings of wood shall not be erected;
to regulate and establish the thickness of walls that are to be
used in the house to be built in said district or any portion
thereof. To provide for the entry into and examination of
all buildings, lots, yards, enclosures, and cars, boats and ve-
hicles of every description, to ascertain their condition for
health, cleanliness and safety; for the taking down and removal
of buildings, walls, structures or super-structures that are or
may become dangerous, or to require owners to move them
or put them in a safe and sound condition at their own ex-
pense; to regulate the building and maintenance of party
walls, partitions, fences, parapet and fire-walls, smoke flues,
fireplaces, hot-air flues, boilers, kettles, smokestacks and stove-
pipes, and the storage of gasoline and other combustibles or
explosives. To provide for and regulate the safe construc-
tion, inspection and repair of all private and public buildings
within the said district. To regulate, restrain or prohibit,
in their discretion, the erection of wooden or frame build-
ings within the present limits of said district or any thickly
populated portion of the same, and to remove the same at
the owner's expense when erected or suffered to remain con-
trary to law or such regulations as they may adopt. To
regulate the height, construction and inspection of all new
buildings hereafter erected in said district. To regulate the
limits within which it shall be lawful to erect steps, porticoes,
bay-windows or other structural ornaments to houses fronting
on any of the highways, streets, avenues, lanes or alleys of said
district, and generally to adopt and enforce the whole of
said district or for thickly populated portions thereof all
necessary regulations or rules for the aforegoing purposes,
and to prescribe fines and penalties for violations thereof, and
provide the manner in which the same shall be collected;
provided, however, that no such rules and regulations so
adopted by said County Commissioners as aforesaid shall be
deemed valid or effective until the same shall have been form-