JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ'., GOVERNOR.

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77. The Commissioner of Health shall annually appoint a
Vaccine Physician for every ward of the city of Balti-
more, who shall be a resident of the ward for which he
may be appointed, who shall vaccinate in his ward all
such persons as may be designated by the Commissioner
or Assistant Commissioner of Health, as susceptible to
small -pox contagion, and whose duty it shall be to visit each
dwelling-house in the ward for which he is appointed and
vaccinate every person who may be presented to him for that
purpose, and to be prepared at his office at such hours
as may be designated by the Commissioner of Health to
vaccinate all who may there call on him, that are residents of
said ward, requiring vaccination. He shall keep a record of
the names, ages and residences of all whom he shall vacci-
nate or re-vaccinate, and report the same monthly under oath
or affirmation to the Commissioner of Health, and shall also
report to the said Commissioner of Health monthly the names
of all persons who shall refuse to suffer themselves or the
members of their household to be vaccinated, when the same
shall be necessary. He shall discharge all other duties which
may be required of him as such Vaccine Physician by ordi-
nances not inconsistent with this Article, and shall also dis-
charge the duties of Sanitary Inspector for his ward. Each
Vaccine Physician shall be paid a salary of not more than
nine hundred dollars per annum, to be fixed by the Health
Commissioner, payable monthly.

Vaccine
Physicians.
Duties.

97. The said Board of Park Commissioners shall have full
power to employ and compensate all persons whom, in its
judgment, it may deem proper in maintaining and supporting
such parks, squares, springs and monuments, or any other
buildings, collection garden or reservation provided for in
this Article. The distribution of the Park Fund for the
maintenance of the different parks and squares shall be made
by the Park Commissioners, provided nothing contained in
this section or elsewhere in this Article shall be taken or
construed to exempt the said Board of Park Commissioners
from a full compliance with all the requirements of Section
thirty -six of this Article, and the said Board of Park Com-
missioners shall spend no part of said Park Fund, unless such
expenditure is authorized and included in the annual Ordi-
nance of Estimates, and, provided further, that the Board of
Park Commissioners who go into office on the first day of
March, in the year 1900, shall make such report to the Board
of Estimates as .soon thereafter as possible, which report shall
include all expenditures to be made by said Board of Park

Park Commis-
sioners.
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