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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Infectious
diseases.
Small-pox.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section thirty-one, of Article 43, of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Health," sub-title
"Infectious Diseases — Small-pox," be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments, to read as follows:

Vaccination of
public school
pupils.
Instructions
for.

31. No teacher in any of the public schools of this State
shall receive into such school as a pupil any person who has
not been successfully vaccinated; and it shall be the duty of
all teachers in the public schools within ten days after the
beginning of the fall term of said schools, and thereafter as
new pupils shall enter such school, to ascertain and enroll on
the vaccine register of said school the names of those pupils
who may produce a certificate of a regular practicing physician
of the county or city, as the case may be, certifying that the
pupil has been successfully vaccinated, and also the names of
those pupils who have been enrolled at any previous term in
any school of the county or in the City of Baltimore, as the
case may be, as successfully vaccinated pupils, whenever any
such pupil shall present a certificate of such enrollment from
the teacher of any such school. If any person shall apply for
admission as a pupil in any of the public schools of this State
who has not been successfully vaccinated, the teacher shall
give the parents or guardian or other person having control

Physicians
shall vaccinate
pupils.

of such pupil an order directed to any physician in the county
or city, as the case may be, and requiring any regular physician
to whom it may be presented to vaccinate such pupil and
return a certificate of such vaccination when successful to the
teacher giving such order. The County Commissioners of
the several counties and the Mayor and City Council of Bal-

Compensation

timore City, as the case may be, shall pay or cause to be paid
to the physician performing the service on such order the
sum of fifty cents for every such successful vaccination on the
presentation of the order and certification of the teacher that
such vaccination has been performed; provided, that in coun-
ties or in the City of Baltimore, when vaccine physicians are
appointed or contracts made with certain physicians by the
proper authorities for the vaccination of all children or persons
who may apply free of any charge to the person applying,

Teachers may
be fined for
violation.

the provisions of this section providing for the payment of
physcians' certified orders of teachers shall not apply. Any
teacher neglecting or refusing to comply with the provisions
of this section shall, on conviction thereof, before any justice
of the peace having jurisdiction over said offense, be fined ten
dollars for each and every offense. And no public school
trustee or commissioner shall grant any permit to any person