PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1145

by information or petition filed in the name of the Board, to
apply to the Judges or to any Judge of the Circuit Court for
the county in which such nuisance shall exist, or to the Judge
of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City, as the case may be, in
term, time or vacation, for an injunction to restrain and pre-
vent such nuisance no matter by whom or what authority com-
mitted. They shall have the power to enter upon and inspect
private property in regard to the presence of nuisances, cases
of infectious and contagious diseases and to determine the cause
and source of diseases; to make rules and regulations not incon-
sistent with law regulating the character and location of plumb-
ing, drainage, water supply, disposal of sewage, garbage or
other waste material and offensive trades; the sanitary condi-
tion of streets, alleys, outhouses, cesspools and all sanitary
features connected therewith; no rule or regulation, however,
to carry a higher penalty than one hundred dollars for each
offense and all such rules and regulations to bear the seal of the
State Board of Health and be attested by its secretary and be
published not less than three times in some daily newspaper
published in the city of Baltimore, such rules and regulations
not to be effective until thirty days after their publication.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That an additional Section be
and the same is hereby added to Article 43 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Health," said Section
to follow immediately after Section 2 of said Article 43 and to
be designated as Section 2-A.

SEC. 2-A. The State Board of Health by any member thereof
shall have power to administer oaths, certify to official acts,
issue subpoenas, compel the attendance of witnesses and pro-
duction of papers, books, documents and testimony. In case
of the failure of any person to comply with any subpoena law-
fully issued, or on refusal of any witness to testify to any
matter regarding which he may be lawfully interrogated, it
shall be the duty of the Circuit Court of any county or the
judge thereof, or of either of the Circuit Courts of Baltimore
city or the judges thereof, on application of any member of
the State Board of Health, to compel obedience by attachment
proceedings for contempt. Every witness who shall appear
before the Board by its orders shall receive for his attendance
the fees now provided for witnesses in civil cases in courts of
record, which shall be audited and paid by the State in the
same manner as other expenses are audited and paid upon the
presentation of properly verified vouchers. But no witness
subpoenaed at the instance of parties other than the Board shall