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upon the local boards of health and health officers for assist-
ance, and it shall be the duty of all boards and officers so called
upon for such assistance to render the same. It shall further-
more be the duty of said State Board of Health to transmit
such data to the Chief of the Maryland Bureau of Statistics and
Information, who shall record said data and include the same
and a summary thereof in his annual report.

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

Approved April 8, 1912.

CHAPTER 166.

AN ACT to authorize the State of Maryland to purchase a
library from Mrs. Lucy Ford Sollers.

(Vetoed.)

CHAPTER 167.

AN ACT to add a new section to be known as section 353A, to
Article 4 of the Public Local Laws' of Maryland, title "City
of Baltimore," sub-title "Orphans' Court," to follow section
353, providing for the payment of funeral expenses of dece-
dents by executors and administrators.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section to be known as section 353A, be and
the same is hereby added to Article 4 of the Public Local Laws
of Maryland, entitled "City of Baltimore," sub-title "Orphans'
Court," to follow section 353 and to read as follows:

SEC. 353A. Every executor or administrator within ninety
days after the grant of letters, shall pay, out of the first moneys
received by him, after the first cost of letters of administration,
and after all taxes due from his decedent shall have been paid
or determined, the funeral expenses of his decedent, to be
allowed in the discretion of the Orphans' Court according to
the condition and circumstances of the deceased, in no event
to exceed $300.00, and the same shall be preferred to all debts
and claims against the deceased, except for taxes due and in
arrear from the decedent. If the said funeral expenses be not
paid within ninety days after the grant of letters testamentary