1130 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 696]

be by the collector delivered or tendered to the purchaser whose
right in the property so purchased shall thenceforth cease and
determine.

SEC. 245. There shall be a health officer appointed in the
same manner as other appointments are made, who shall be a
reputable practicing physician whose duty it shall be to have
charge of any supervision over all matters of health and health
regulations, within the town and he shall receive such salary
or compensation as the Mayor and City Council shall fix.

SEC. 246. It shall be the duty of every physician residing
and practicing medicine within the town of Laurel to make a
return to the Collector of all births and deaths; and also of all
contagious and infectuous diseases and report the same to the
practicing physicians in said town, and the said Collector shall
also keep a record thereof in a well-bound book or books to
be provided for the said purposes. The said Collector shall
issue burial permits, and no burial or interment shall take place
within the town limits until a permit for the same has been
issued by the said Collector.

SEC. 246 1/2. All ordinances and resolutions of the Mayor
and City Council of Laurel shall remain in force and have the
same legal effect as when enacted, the intention being not to
repeal by any provision hereof any of the said ordinances,
unless they be in conflict herewith.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1912.

CHAPTER 696.

N ACT providing for the registration of all births and deaths
within the State of Maryland and defining the duties of the
State Board of Health and the State Registrar of Vital
Statistics and providing for the appointment of county regis-
trars, local registrars and deputy local registrars, defining
their duty and fixing their compensation, and providing for
the issuance of birth and death certificates and burial per-
mits, and providing penalties for the violation of this act,,
and making an appropriation to carry the provisions of this
act into effect by adding certain additional sections to Arti-
cle 43 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland,
title "Health," sub-title "State Registrar of Vital Statis-