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plugs, pumps, engines, appliances, wires or other fixtures or
equipment owned or used by the said Commission in the con-
struction and operation of its systems within, the Washington
Suburban Sanitary District except under such rules and regu-
lations as the said Commission may adopt.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation within the Sanitary Dis-
trict created by Chapter 122 of the Acts of 1918, or upon any
watershed from which the said Commission gets its water sup-
ply, whether within or without said District, to leave unburied
for a longer period than twenty-four hours any dead animal
or animals or fecal matter, and the Commission may in addi-
tion to the penalty hereinafter provided after the expiration
of said time bury said animal or fecal matter and charge the
cost thereof to the owner or the person upon whose property
the same is found.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That any violation of
the provisions of this Act are hereby declared to be a misde-
meanor and shall be punishable before any Justice of the
Peace or the Circuit Court of the County in which such
offense is committed, and any persons adjudged guilty thereof
shall be subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars
($100. 00) or thirty days in the county jail or both in the
discretion of the Court.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 253.

AN ACT to repeal Section 2 of Article 80 of the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws, title "Reporter and Codifier—State. "
and to re-enact the same with amendment.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 2 of Article 80 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws, title "Reporter and Codifier—State, " be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as fol-
lows:

2. The State Reporter and Codifier shall receive from the
Treasurer of the State a salary of three thousand, six hundred
dollars per year, in monthly installments.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect as of
June 1. 1924.