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shall be the duty of the party occupying said premises to have
the same emptied whenever it may be full or requiring to be
cleaned; and any person refusing or neglecting to have such
boxes emptied shall be subject to a fine of five dollars for every
such offense, recoverable as other fines before a justice of the
peace. Nothing contained in this section shall prevent any
owner of property from having constructed upon his premises
water closets or privy vaults built on approved sanitary prin-
ciples.

179. Any earth pits which may be now in use in any town
or village of more than five hundred inhabitants in Baltimore
county shall be easy of access and shall be in their construction
and location subject to the inspection of the sanitary officers;
and if found by said officials to be defectively constructed or
located, the necessary changes ordered by the sanitary officers
shall be made, and in the neglect or refusal of said property
owners to have placed such boxes, or to have them made or
located as in the judgment of the sanitary officers seems best,
in either case a fine of five dollars shall be imposed in the man-
ner prescribed in section 175.

180. It shall be unlawful to bury the contents of privies or
other offal, or deposit the same within half a mile of the limits
of any town or village having more than five hundred inhabi-
tants, or within a reasonable distance from any dwelling house
outside the limits of such town or village, under penalty of a
fine of five dollars for every such offense.

181. It shall be the duty of the sanitary officers in all such
cases as may be supplied with a force for the collection of gar-
bage, to direct the garbage force to remove the contents of
privy boxes, for which service the remover of garbage is author-
ized to receive twenty-five cents for each box emptied, to be
paid by the occupant of the premises.

182. The said sanitary officers shall have full power to ex-
amine all highways, alleys and byways in their respective dis-
tricts, and upon the report of said sanitary officers of the condi-
tion of any highway, alley or byway being prejudicial to the
health of the neighborhood, it shall be the duty of the County
Commissioners to examine the same, and to cause to be made
such repairs in the grading, paving and draining of such high-
way, alley or byways, as may be necessary, and to tax the
property binding thereon one-half the cost of said improve-
ments.

183. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep a hog pen
within fifty feet of any dwelling house, or well, or spring, the