1104 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

proper or necessary to the carrying out of this Act, and all or-
dinances of the Commissioners of 'Crisfield now in force and
not inconsistent with this Act, shall be and they are hereby
continued in as full force and virtue as if the Mayor and Coun-
cil of Crisfield were named therein, until changed or repealed
by the General Assembly of Maryland or by the Mayor and
Council of Crisfield, respectively.

98. All officers provided for or named in the charter of Cris-
field or in any amendments thereto, as it now stands before the
passage of this Act, whether by election or appointment, shall
continue to hold, exercise and discharge the duties of their re-
spective offices until their successors shall be duly appointed,
elected or qualified, and nothing contained in this Act shall be
construed to interfere with the continuity of the terms or ten-
ure of said officers; nor shall a reappointment or re-election of
any of said officers be necessary in order to secure the said con-
tinuity of their said terms and tenures of offices, unless other-
wise provided in this Act.

99. The Mayor and Council of Crisfield shall ex officio con-
stitute a local board of health for the City of Crisfield, and
shall have and exercise within the corporate limits of such city
all the powers and duties of a board of health as provided in
Article 43 of the Code of Public General Laws, although not
specifically enumerated herein, except in so far as the provi-
sions thereof may be inconsistent with the provisions of this
subtitle; said board of health shall have the general care of the
sanitary interests of the people of the City of Crisfield. They
shall make or cause to be made sanitary investigations and
inquiries respecting the causes of disease and especially epi-
demic, and causes of mortality; they shall inquire into and
investigate, or caused to be inquired into and investigated, all
nuisances affecting the public health, comfort or property of
the citizen of said city, and further they shall have full power
and authority to preserve the health of the city, to prevent and
remove nuisances and to prevent the introduction of contagious
diseases within the corporate limits of said city. They are
further authorized and empowered to establish a pest house
and to remove thereto all individuals suffering from pestilential
diseases; they are empowered by ordinances to regulate cess-
pools, earth pits and other means of sewage disposal; to regu-
late or exclude places where offensive trade are conducted; to
regulate or exclude pig-pens within the corporate limits; to
pass ordinances governing the disposal of garbage or refuse; to
regulate or exclude slaughter houses within the corporate
limits; to establish a system of public water supply; to estab-
lish a system of sewage disposal, and to require by ordinance