554 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the rules and regulations of the County Commissioners after
due notice has been received from the said County Commis-
sioners to discontinue such act, shall be deemed a separate and
distinct offense, and the person or persons so offending shall be
liable to a further fine of five dollars for each day during which
the offense is continued; provided, that nothing in this section
shall be construed to prevent the use of water-tight boxes or
other water-tight receptacles, in privies, water closets and out-
houses, provided that such boxes or other receptacles shall be
emptied by the occupant, and it shall be the duty of the party
occupying said premises to have the same emptied whenever it
may be full or required to be cleaned, and any person refusing
or neglecting to have such box emptied upon notice from the
county or district health officer, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine
of five dollars.

132A. No earth pits or cesspools, or other means for the
disposal of human sewerage other than the water-tight
boxes or other water-tight receptacles specified in the pre-
ceding section shall be constructed in any part of Balti-
more county within three hundred yards of the source of
any public or private water supply, excepting upon a per-
mit issued by the county or district health officer, provided
that any person who shall have a private water supply upon his
own property and who shall have maintained such water sup-
ply previous to the construction of any cesspool, or other re-
ceptacle or contrivance, or earth pit which he may allege to
have polluted his water supply, may make application to the
County Commissioners for an investigation to determine if his
water supply is polluted by the said earth pit, cesspool, or other
receptacle or contrivance. If upon such investigation such
private water supply shall be found to be polluted by said cess-
pool, earth pit, or other receptacle or contrivance, the County
Commissioners shall order the use of such cesspool, earth pit,
or other receptacle or contrivance discontinued. Any person
refusing or neglecting to obey such order of the County Com-
missioners shall be liable to the penalty provided by section
132 for refusing to comply- with rules and regulations of the
County Commissioners as aforesaid, but provided that in com-
munities supplied by a common public water supply, and in
which two-thirds of the houses in such communities shall be
supplied by the said common or public water supply, the owner
of a private supply shall not have the right to prevent the use
of a cesspool or pit by any individual if the said owner can re-
ceive water from the public water supply at a reasonable cost,
and provided that individuals using the public water supply