All persons, co-partnerships and corporations in Baltimore City before
engaging in the business of undertaking or preparing bodies for burial,
shall first apply to the State Board of Undertakers for a license. If the
Board after an investigation of the application and the applicant is of
the opinion that he is entitled to such license, it is authorized to grant
the same upon the payment of twenty-five dollars. The applicant is then
registered as a duly licensed undertaker.

All licenses expire annually on the 30th day of April, but renewals of
the same can be secured, after examination, upon the payment of five
dollars. The penalty for violations of this provision relating to registra-
tion is a fine of not more than ten dollars or imprisonment for not more
than one year, or both.

STATE VACCINE AGENT.

v (Term Expires 1920.)

Nome. Postoffice.
Dr. Wartman F. Zinn, 809 Park Ave. ................. .Baltimore

The Governor, with consent of the Senate, appoints one for a term
of six years from the first Monday in May. (Bagby Code, Art. 43,
Sec. 54.)

The duties of this office are to have on hand, at all times, a sufficient
quantity of vaccine virus, which is furnished to the physicians of the
State of Maryland free of charge upon application.

It is the aim of this office to confine the distribution of vaccine virus
to those physicians making application for same for charity work, but
any physician desiring vaccine, for use within the State, is furnished
with same.

Care is exercised in the handling to prevent it from becoming inert
and special instructions, as to the handling and administering of it, are
enclosed with each package sent out.

CHIEF VETERINARY INSPECTOR.

(Term Expires 1916.)

Name. Postoffice.
Dr. Lawrence Hickman, 120 N. High St................Baltimore

The Governor appoints one, whose term of office expires with that
of the Governor. (Bagby Code, Art. 58, Sec. 5.)

It is the duty of the Chief Veterinary Inspector to visit the stables
of the cities and counties of this State, wherever and whenever he has
reason to believe contagious or infectious disease may exist, and has
the power to make such visits at any hour of the day between sunrise
and sunset, and order all animals exposed to contagion or infection to be
isolated in such manner as the nature thereof may, in his judgment,
render necessary to prevent the spreading of such disease; to order that
any premises, farm or farms, stables or railway ears, where such dis-
ease exists or has existed, be put in quarantine, properly disinfected; to
prescribe expedient regulations if he so deems necessary to prevent
infection or contagion. It is the duty of all veterinarians to report im-
mediately to this Department all eases of any infections or contagious
diseases among live stock which may come to their knowledge, under
penalty. It is also his duty to see that all animals having any contagious
or infectious disease, be slaughtered if same be necessary to prevent the
spread of disease.