ART. 43] STATE VACCINE AGENCY. 1091

label on the exterior of said mattresses and other articles of manufac-
ture, describing by name each and every material used for filling or
stuffing purposes, and contained therein. The said label shall be of
linen paper or some other white manufactured fabric, shall be in size
2 1/2 x3 inches, and shall have every article used in the manufacture of
said mattress or other article plainly printed or written in the English
language on said label, so that the purchaser can read the same; and
in case said purchaser cannot read, the seller shall read said label to
him, and such label shall be a guarantee of the material used in the
manufacture of the article sold, and shall remain on said mattress
when sold and delivered. Any person offending against the provisions
of this sub-title of this article of the code shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemanor, and on conviction before a justice of the peace shall be
fined for each offense not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty
dollars, and in default of payment be committed to a jail for not- less
than ten nor more than thirty days, unless sooner discharged by pay-
ment or by due process of law. No manufacturer or seller of said
articles shall be required to state on said label the quantity of the
different materials used, but only the character and quality.

State Vaccine Agency.

1904, art. 43, sec. 40. 1888, art. 43, sec. 25. 1864, ch. 269, sec. 1.
1872, ch. 257, sec. 1.

53. A state vaccine agency is established; said agency to be located
in the city of Baltimore, in which place shall be kept, at all times, 'a
supply of fresh and pure vaccine virus, if practicable, not more than
four removes from the cow, for the use of the physicians residing and
practising medicine and surgery in this State.
See note to sec. 55.

Ibid. sec. 41. 1888, art. 43, sec. 26. 1S64, ch. 269, sec. 2.

54. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate,
shall, once in six years, appoint, as State vaccine agent, one physician
of good character and standing, whose duty it shall be to keep on hand,
and to procure as often as may be necessary, pure vaccine virus, and
to furnish such virus to the physicians of the State, gratuitously, when
called for; he shall keep a record of the n'ame and location of each
physician so furnished with virus, together with the quantities, quali-
ties and number of times; he shall be required to advertise once a
month in one or more of the newspapers published in the city of Balti-
more, and once during the year (three insertions) in one paper of
each county; he shall, for his services as state vaccine agent, receive an
annual salary of six hundred dollars, and to defray the expenses
incurred by him in procuring reliable vaccine virus; and to further
carry out the provisions of this section the additional sum of fourteen
hundred dollars is hereby appropriated; paid salary to be paid in
quarterly instalments as other state officers are now paid; and it shall