1422 LAWS or MARYLAND. [CH. 563

be issued by such officials and that the Clerk to the County
Commissioners shall furnish to such town officials sufficient
building permit blanks for this purpose. It shall be the duty
of such town official to issue permits in the town or munici-
pality under his jurisdiction, as set forth in this section, these
permits to be issued in quadruplicate, one copy to be retained
by the applicant, one to be sent to the Clerk to the County
Commissioners, one to be sent to the County Assessor and one
to be retained by the official issuing the permit. One-half of
the permit fee shall be retained by the official of the town or
municipality issuing the permit, the other half to be sent to
the Clerk to the County Commissioners. Provided, however,
that permit blanks shall be mailed on request by the Clerk to
the County Commissioners to any person who desires to con-
struct or repair any building or buildings in said county, but
no person shall actually construct or repair any building or
buildings until the permit blanks have been returned to the
Clerk to the County Commissioners and approved by him and
permit actually issued. Failure to mail or receive the blanks
or permits shall not affect in any way prosecutions under the
provisions of this Act. That it is the purpose and intention
of this section to require all persons who contemplate building,
altering, constructing, re-constructing, remodeling any and all
buildings of any nature, kind and description, before so doing
to obtain a permit from the clerk to the County Commissioners
or the proper town or municipal official and if any person shall
proceed in the building, erecting, constructing, re-constructing
or remodeling any building where the cost of same shall be in
excess of the sum of two hundred dollars without first having
made application and having obtained a permit therefor; it
then and there shall be the duty of the constituted authorities
of said county or said town to immediately swear out a war-
rant for said person, or persons and have him or them taken
before some Justice of the Peace of said county whose duty it
shall be to try said person or persons and if upon conviction by
said Justice of the Peace he shall fine said person or persons
not more than fifty dollars and not less than ten dollars, and
he or they shall stand committed to the Prince George's Coun-
ty Jail until said fine and costs are paid, not to exceed an im-
prisonment of thirty days, one-half of said fine to be paid to
the informer.

This section shall not apply to necessary repairs on build-
ings in said county where the cost of said repairs does not ex-
ceed the sum of five hundred dollars.