ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  739

If such Board or Chief of the Fire Department, or Chief,
Captain or Lieutenant of a volunteer fire company, as desig-
nated above, after any inspection made under authority of this
sub-title, shall in its or his discretion deem that any such accu-
mulation of material of a combustible nature increases the dan-
ger of fire to the premises where such accumulation has been
permitted, or to the property adjacent thereto, such Board or
Chief of the Fire Department, or officer of a volunteer company
as aforesaid, - shall give notice in writing to the occupant or occu-
pants, or one of them, of the premises where such accumulation
has been permitted, to remove or cause to be removed from such
premises such material of a combustible nature within forty-
eight hours after receipt by him or her of such notice. In case
such material of such combustible nature shall not be removed
within forty-eight hours after notice as aforesaid, such Board
or Chief of the Fire Department, or other officer as herein speci-
fied, may cause the same to be removed from such premises, and
thereupon cause notice in writing of the cost and expenses of
such removal to be given to such occupant or occupants, or one
of them, and also certify the amount thereof to the City Treas-
urer, Town Treasurer or County Treasurer of the city, town or
county, and in case such costs and expenses shall not be paid,
to said treasurer within thirty days after such notice, such city,
town or county may recover such costs and expenses in an action
on the case against such occupant or occupants.

Approved April 17, 1931.

CHAPTER 286.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
280 of Article 21 of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Talbot County, " sub-title
"Police Justices, " increasing the salary of the Police Jus-
tice at St. Michaels, Talbot County, Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 280 of Article 21 of the Public Local
Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Talbot County, "
sub-title "Police Justices, " be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, so as to read as follows:

280. The said Police Justice shall receive as compen-
sation for his services, the sum of seven hundred and fifty