394 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

be subject to removal at any time in the discretion of the
County Commissioners.

25. It shall be the duty of the Inspector of Buildings to
visit and inspect all theatres, hotels, public halls, churches,
school houses and buildings used for public assemblages and
all manufactories employing twenty-five or more persons, now
erected or that may be hereafter erected in said district, for
the purpose of ascertaining if said buildings have the proper
means of exit in case of fire or panic; and if on examination
the said Inspector of Buildings shall determine that said
buildings as herein enumerated have not the proper means
of exit for the purposes herein prescribed, then it shall be the
duty of the said Inspector of Buildings to notify in writing the
said owners, trustees or lessees of said buildings, as herein
enumerated, to so improve the same as to provide the proper
means of exit in case of fire or panic as in the judgment of
said Inspector of Buildings he may deem proper and neces-
sary. If any person having been notified shall fail to comply
with the said notice, he shall, after the expiration of thirty
days from the date of said notice, forfeit and pay a fine of one
hundred dollars for non-compliance therewith, and twenty-
five dollars per day for each and every day thereafter that he
shall refuse to make such improvements as prescribed in
the notice so given, as provided in the preceding section; said
fines to be collected as other fines are collected by law; pro-
vided, however, that the person so ordered to make improve-
ments to his property as aforesaid shall have the right to
appeal in writing to the County Commissioners of Baltimore
county from such order of the Building Inspector, and to ad-
duce evidence and be heard thereon; but the right to such
appeal shall be considered waived unless the same be taken
within fifteen days from the service of such notice. It shall be
the duty of the School Commissioners of Baltimore county to
comply with all the building regulations adopted by the
County Commissioners for the district embraced within the
provisions of this sub-title; and it shall further be the duty
of the said School Commissioners to provide suitable fire-
escapes for all school buildings heretofore erected and now in
use in the whole of Baltimore county where said buildings
are more than one story in height, and also to provide suitable
fire escapes for all such buildings now in course of construction
or hereafter to be erected; and in the event of the failure of
said School Commissioners to comply with the provisions of
this section, the County Commissioners shall have the power