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to contract for the doing of such work and shall deduct the
cost thereof from the amount levied for the support of the
schools of the county.

26. It shall be the duty of the Inspector of Buildings to
enforce the execution of all existing or hereafter enacted
building rules or regulations relating to the construction,
alteration and removal of buildings or other structures, walls
or parts of buildings or other structures.

27. It shall not be lawful for the owners or lessees of any
public hall, church, school or place of amusement in said Twelfth
Election District of Baltimore county to obstruct or allow, to
be obstructed by others, any of the aisles or passageways in
the auditorium of said halls, churches, schools, or places of
amusement, by placing therein any benches, chairs or stools,
or other articles that may prevent free ingress and egress dur-
ing the hours that said places may be open to the public. Said
owners or lessees, or their agents, are required to keep open
at all hours during the time said halls, churches, schools or
places of amusement are open to the public, all doors giving
ingress or egress, unless said doors open outward from said
places, in which case the same may be closed, but no hin-
drance, such as lock-bars, gratings or catches of any kind shall
be allowed to obstruct or prevent instant and easy egress
through the same; and when said doors open inward it is
required of said owners, lessees or their agents, that said
doors shall be fastened securely and firmly open. Owners, or
lessees or any person holding under them, or their agents,
violating any of the provisions aforesaid, shall, on conviction
thereof, be fined by the court before which conviction is had
for any violation, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars,
to be paid to the County Commissioners and recovered as
other fines in this State. It is made the special duty of the
judges of the Circuit Court for Baltimore county to specially
charge the grand jury of said county upon the execution of
the foregoing provisions, and the police authorities of said
district are specially charged with the execution thereof, and
to that end shall direct such frequent examination by some
of their officers as the County Commissioners may require of
all such places. It shall not be lawful in said district for any
person, agent, owner or proprietor of any sweatshop, manu-
facturing establishment or factory where four or more per-
sons are employed to use any coal oil, gasoline or any other
explosive or inflammable compound for the purpose of lighting
or heating in any form, except under a special permit from the