ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1075

shall be lawful to erect steps, porticoes, bay windows, or other
structural ornaments to houses fronting on any of the highways,

streets, avenues, lanes or alleys of said district, to regulate the
materials used and the manner of installing any and all systems
of electric wiring, piping, conduit laying in any building, and
generally to adopt and enforce for the whole of said district
or for thickly populated portions thereof, all necessary regula-
tions or rules, for the aforegoing purposes, and to prescribe
fines and penalties for violations thereof; provided, however,
that no such rules and regulations so adopted by said County
Commissioners as aforesaid shall be deemed valid or effective
until the same shall have been formally adopted by the said
County Commissioners at a regular meeting, and recorded in a
book kept in their office for the purpose, and until said rules and
regulations shall have been published at least three times in
two of the county papers in Montgomery County; and it shall
be the duty of the County Commissioners to cause said rules
and regulations adopted by them as aforesaid to be so recorded
in a book or books kept by them for that purpose in their office,
and to be published at least three times in two papers pub-
lished, in Montgomery County as aforesaid, and when so re-
corded and published all persons shall be deemed and taken to
have notice thereof, and no actual notice need be proven.
And it shall further be the duty of the said County Commis-
sioners to cause to be printed for general distribution a suffici-
ent number of copies of said rules and regulations when so
adopted, recorded and published as aforesaid, with a printed
certificate, by the chief clerk of said County Commissioners,
to the effect that said rules and regulations have so recorded
and published as aforesaid, and said printed copy of such
regulations, with certificate as aforesaid, shall be deemed prima
facie evidence of such rules and regulations whenever it may be
necessary to prove the existence of the same in any judicial
proceeding. And the power is given said County Commis-
sioners to change or amend from time to time, as may be neces-
sary, such rules and regulations in whole or in part, in which
event, the same shall be valid and effective when recorded and
published as aforesaid. And the said County Commissioners,
in addition to the remedies provided for by this Act, shall
have the right to enforce said regulations and the provisions
of this Act, and to prevent infractions thereof by an application
to the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, in equity, for an
injunction, and a breach or threatened breach or violation of