276 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 158

way, for the purpose of installing, maintaining and operating
the Sewerage and drainage system provided for under this
Act, and it may construct in any such street, road or alley or
public highway, a sewer or drain, or any appurtenance thereof
without the receipt of a permit or the payment of a charge;
provided that whenever any State, county or municipal high-
way is to be disturbed the public authority having control
thereof shall be duly notified, and provided further that said
highway shall be repaired and left by the Mayor and Common
Council of Union Bridge in the same, or a not inferior condi-
tion to that existing before being torn up, and that, all costs
incident thereto shall be borne by the Mayor and Common
Council of Union Bridge.

SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That any employee or
agent of the said Mayor and Common Council of Union
Bridge shall have the right of entry, at all reasonable hours,
upon any private premises and into any building in the town
of Union Bridge while in the pursuit of his official duties and
any restraint or hindrance offered to such entrance by any
owner or tenant or agent of said owner or tenant, shall be a
misdemeanor punishable under Section 15 of this Act.

SEC. 14. And be it further enacted. That any individual,
firm or corporation, having building, conduits, pipes, tracks
or other physical constructions, in, over or under the public
roads, streets, or alleys of the town of Union Bridge, which
shall block or impede the progress of the Mayor and Common
Council's sewerage or drainage system while in the process
of construction and establishment, shall, upon reasonable
notice from said Mayor and Common Council of Union
Bridge promptly so shift, adjust, accommodate or remove the
same, at their own cost and expense, as to fully meet the
exigencies occasioning the said notice, and should the exigencies
of any case involve a taking, in the constitutional sense, of
the franchise or right in the exercise of which such obstruction
had its origin, the Mayor and Common Council of Union
Bridge shall be empowered to condemn an easement in said
franchise or right. Any violation of the provisions of this sec-
tion shall be a misdemeanor punishable under Section 15 of
this Act.

SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That every Act. or omis-
sion designated as a misdemeanor in this Act, unless otherwise
provided, shall be punishable before any Justice of the Peace,