558 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the County Commissioners of Baltimore county be
and are hereby authorized and directed to have all the stores,
dwellings and other .buildings fronting upon the streets, high-
ways or public thoroughfares within the confines of the commu-
nities of Highlandtown and Canton, in the Twelfth Election
District of said county, renumbered according to and in con-
formity with the present system of numbering now in force in
the city of Baltimore.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the confines of the communi-
ties mentioned in the preceding section, the boundaries and
limits to which this Act shall apply shall be left to the discre-
tion of the said County Commissioners; provided, however, that
they shall not extend farther east than Twentieth street as laid
out in plat in the office of the said County Commissioners, nor
farther north than Eager .street, in the Fourteenth Election
District of said county.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said County Commission-
ers shall have full power to contract for the surveying and
other work necessary for the renumbering, and also to deter-
mine upon the manner in which the work shall be paid for,
whether from the county treasury, the road fund of the district
or by special assessment upon the property holders directly in-
terested; provided, however, that individual property owners
or lessees are not to be assessed more than twenty-five cents per
single plate, or combination of numbers, for each building so
numbered.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That three months after a new
number has been placed upon a house or building, as provided
in the foregoing sections, it shall be deemed a misdemeanor for
the owner or lessee of said property to have any other numer-
als to designate the location of said property displayed in the
manner that house numbers are usually displayed. Any in-
fraction of this section may be tried before a justice of the
peace, or other trial officer, and upon conviction of the same,
shall be punishable by a fine of not less than five nor more than
twenty-five dollars.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the provisions of this Act
shall go into effect within sixty days after its passage.

Approved April 8, 1908.

CHAPTER 402.

AN ACT to add four additional sections to article 3 of the Pub-
lic Local Laws, entitled "Baltimore County," sub-title