EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1477

protect such thoroughfares from injuries and render the use
thereof by the public safe and convenient.

Section 331. The Mayor and City Council shall grant the
temporary use of any street, alley or public thoroughfare of
said City, which may be required by the Owner of any exca-
vated lots as aforesaid, to enable him to comply with the pro-
visions of the two preceding sections in constructing under-
drains, walls, or fences, or in making grades.

Section 332. They shall have full power to prescribe fines
and penalties, not less than five nor more than fifty dollars,
against the owners of excavated lots, who, after receiving ten
days' notice in writing, shall refuse or neglect to comply with
the provisions of the three preceding sections; and the fines
and penalties prescribed as aforesaid, shall be recoverable in
the name of the Mayor and City Council, before a Justice of
the Peace of said County, and, when collected, shall be paid
to the City Treasurer.

Section 333. It shall not be lawful for any person or per-
sons after the passage of this act, without the consent of the
Mayor and City Council of Havre de Grace, to excavate any
lot or lots in said city of Havre de Grace, for the purpose of
obtaining moulding sand or otherwise, to a greater depth than
two feet, unless such excavation is for the real and bona fide
purpose of digging a foundation or foundations for a building
or buildings proposed to be erected, and for such excavation
as may be necessary for the use of such buildings now erected
or to be hereafter erected, and any persons violating this Sec-
tion shall be subject to a penalty of not less than fifty dollars
nor more than one hundred dollars for every day during which
such excavation shall be made or be in existence, to be recov-
ered as other fines are recovered.

Section. 334. They may direct by ordinance all or any of
the footways within the limits of said City to be laid off, lev-
eled and paved, or repaired with such materials as they may
deem best, at the expense of the proprietors of the different
lots, in front of which the same shall be done; provided, that
they shall first grade said footway, and at their own expense,
place such curb as they may think suitable and sufficient.

Section 335. If any owner or tenant of any house or lot,
or part of a lot, shall refuse or neglect to pave or repair the
footway in front of the same, according to the ordinances of
the corporation, the Mayor and City Council may contract