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expense hereinbefore mentioned; that before the comptroller
shall issue said warrant there shall be presented to him with
an itemized bill of the undertaker a certificate of death* stating
the name and age of the deceased, together with the cause of
death, if the deceased was buried in Baltimore City, and if the
deceased was buried in one of the counties of the State, then a
certificate of the county commissioners living nearest the place
where the deceased shall have lived, or the certificate of a health
officer, and said certificate also to bear the endorsement of the
commander of the Department of Maryland, Grand Army of
the Republic, or of the Commander, President of the Associa-
tion of the Maryland Line, as to the service of the deceased.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That in no case shall the expense
of interment be paid when the deceased is buried in a cemetery
or county plot used exclusively for interment of paupers or pub-
lic charges.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the sum of six fifteen hun-
dred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby
appropriated and shall be available from March 31, 1912, to
March 31, 1913, and a like sum from March 31. 1913, to
March 31, 1914, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for
the objects above mentioned; and of the sum of fifteen hundred
dollars herein appropriated the sum of seven hundred and fifty
dollars ($750.00) and no more shall be annually applied to
and be disbursed for the payment of the interment of United
States soldiers, sailors and mariners, and seven hundred and
fifty dollars ($750.00) and no more shall be annually applied
to and be disbursed for the payment of the interment of Con-
federate soldiers, sailors and mariners.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1912.

CHAPTER 470.

AN ACT to amend Article 1 of the Code of Public Local Laws
of Maryland entitled "Allegany County," sub-title "Cum-
berland," by adding three additional sections to said Article
1 and to follow section 127 and to be known as sections 127A,
127B and 127C.

(Vetoed.)