396 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

County Commissioners of Baltimore county granted for that
purpose for a period not exceeding one year, the same to be
renewed from time to time by said County Commissioners
in their discretion; and any person, agent, owner or proprietor
violating this provision shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
on conviction thereof shall be fined by the court before which
such conviction be had, for every violation the sum of one
hundred dollars and costs, and stand committed until such fine
and costs be paid. The owner or owners of any such house or
building used as a sweatshop, manufacturing establishment or
factory where four or more persons are employed, on other
than the first floor of such house or building, and the owners or
lessees of any public hall, church, school or places of amuse-
ment where persons are supposed to congregate on other than
the first floor of the same, shall provide suitable fire escapes
for the same; and if any owner or owners, or lessees of any
house or building so used shall fail to make or provide suitable
fire escapes as aforesaid, such owner or owners, or lessees, shall
pay a fine of two hundred dollars, to be paid to the County
Commissioners as aforesaid and recovered as other fines in this
State, or by imprisonment in the county jail for sixty days, or
subject to both fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the
court.

28. It shall not be lawful for stock of any kind to go at
large in Catonsville; and any citizen may take up and impound
any horse, mule, horned cattle or swine which may be found
going at large in said town; and any person so taking up and
impounding shall notify a justice of the peace resident therein,
who shall give notice of said impounding by advertisement
set up in some conspicuous place in the town, describing the
stock so impounded, and that the same shall be sold at public
auction at some public place within said limits four days;
provided, that if the owner of any stock impounded under this
section shall prove to the satisfaction of the justice of the
peace that said stock did not go at large from negligence or
want of care on his part, and that due diligence was used to
prevent it, the owner shall have return of the property on
paying all expenses of keeping, proving the same, and one dollar
for taking up each of the stock.

29. Of all monies arising from the execution of the pre-
ceding section, the justice of the peace shall collect and pay
to the party taking up and impounding said stock a fair
compensation for his services, and the balance to the owner,
who may establish his claim to said property; and in the event