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said County Health Officer in the name of the County Commis-
sioners of Howard County from the said owner or owners,
occupier or occupiers, by suit, if necessary.

SEC. 451. Whenever any legally qualified medical practi-
tioner, or any one or more persons affected thereby, shall make
a complaint 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, pigpen or other
place, or any accumulation or deposit of any substance is in a
condition dangerous to human health, said Local Health Board
shall immediately institute an investigation, and if it shall
decide that the place or thing complained of is in such a condi-
tion 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
person, 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
aforesaid notice to abate the same shall constitute a separate
and distinct offense within the meaning of this Act.

SEC. 45m. Any person occupying any real property or chat-
tels real in Howard County, either as tenant or owner thereof,
or any person owning unoccupied real estate or chattels real
in said county who shall knowingly allow any dead carcass of
any domestic animal to be exposed upon premises without
burial for a longer period than twenty-four hours, shall, upon
conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
shall be liable to a fine of twenty dollars, or imprisonment for
not less than ten days for each offense, in the discretion of the
Court.

SEC. 45n. No earth pits or cesspools, or other means for the
disposal of human sewerage other than water-tight boxes or
other water-tight receptacles, shall be constructed in any part
of Howard County within three hundred yards of the source of
any public or private water supply, excepting upon a permit
issued by the County Health Officer; provided, that any person
who shall have a private water supply upon his own property
and who shall have maintained such water supply previous to