552 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

126. Such local Board of Health shall take cognizance of all
unhealthy nuisances within the limits of Baltimore county;
and any person or corporation refusing or neglecting after
reasonable notice, to comply with the requirements of such
board in respect to such nuisance, shall be liable to a penalty
not exceeding fifty dollars. If the owner or owners, occupier
or occupiers of property on which any such nuisance exist,
shall refuse or neglect to abate the same after such, reasonable
notice, the county health officer, after the expiration of the
time set out in such notice, shall remove the said nuisance, or
cause of said nuisance, at the expense of said owner or owners,
occupier or occupiers; and the cost of removing said nuisance
or cause of said nuisance, may be recovered by said county
health officer in the name of the County Commissioners of Bal-
timore county from the said owner or owners, occupier or occu-
piers by suit if necessary.

127. Whenever any legally qualified medical practitioner or
any one or more persons affected thereby shall make a com-
plaint in writing to the local Board of Health, or to the county
health officer, that any water course, well, spring, open ditch,
gutter, cesspool, drain, privy, pit, pig pen or other place, or any
accumulation or deposit of any substance is in a condition
dangerous .to human health, said local Board of Health shall
immediately institute an investigation, and if it shall decide
that the place or thing complained of is in such a condition as
to injuriously affect the life or health of any person, the said
board shall cause to be served a notice in writing on the per-
son, firm or corporation by whose act, default or sufferance the
place or thing complained of arises or exists, requiring him or
them to abate the same within a time to be specified in the
notice, and any person, firm or corporation refusing or neglect-
ing to comply with the requirements in such notice shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of
not more than ten dollars for the first offense, and for each
subsequent offense in reference to the same place or thing be
fined not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or may be imprisoned
for a period not exceeding thirty days for each offense, in the
discretion of the court. Every day during which a nuisance
shall be permitted to continue to exist after service of the afore-
said notice to abate the same, shall constitute a separate and
distinct offense within the meaning of this sub-title.

128. No person shall haul, cart, carry, drag or deposit any
dead carcass or other carrion in Baltimore county, within one
mile of the city of Baltimore, unless he shall bury or cause the
same to be buried at least two feet under ground, and so as
effectually to prevent any offensive smell therefrom under the