1154 HEALTH. [ART. 43

tive county or in the city of Baltimore in which it is proposed to
carry on said business or engage in the discharge of such employment;
said license or certificate of registration shall be displayed in a conspic-
uous place in the office or place of business of such licensee.*

1902, ch. 160, sec. 9. 1904, ch. 389, sec. 9.

238. The board shall have power at any time to revoke, cancel or
suspend any License heretofore granted, for and upon proper cause
shown, and after a full hearing of all the parties in interest shall have
been had. At said hearing testimony shall be given under oath admin-
istered by some person competent under the law to take affidavits, and
such testimony shall be taken down by shorthand by a competent sten-
ographer appointed by said board, which testimony shall be typewritten
and returned under the oath of said stenographer to said board.*

1902, ch. 160, sec. 10.

239. All certificates issued under section 236, and all licenses issued
under section 237, shall expire on the 30th day of April next ensuing
the date of their issue. Thereafter, before any person, persons, co-part-
nerships or corporations then engaged in the business of undertaking,
or before any assistant or employee of any such persons, co-partnerships
or corporations, or officer of any such corporations, whose duties engage
him or her in the care, preparation, disposition or burial of the dead,
shall continue in the said business or employment in this State, he, she,
they, or it shall make application to the said board for a license to
carry on the said business or engage in the practice thereof. Upon the
payment of a fee of five dollars the said board shall issue to the said
applicant a license similar to the one issued under section 237; such
license shall date from the first day of May and be effective for the
period of one year therefrom, and shall be renewed annually thereafter
upon the payment of a fee of five dollars.*

Where an undertaker's license expires under this section pending a suit to
enjoin the revocation thereof, no appeal lies from a decree refusing such
injunction. Syfer v. Spence, 103 Md. 67.

1902, ch. 160, sec. 11. 1908, ch. 496, sec. 11.

240. Any person, persons, co-partnerships or corporation who shall
practice or hold himself, herself, themselves or itself out as practising
the business of undertaking or discharge the duties of such employment
as engage him or her in the care, preparation, disposition or burial of
the bodies of deceased persons without having complied with the provi-
sions of sections 236, 237 and 239, and any superintendent or person in
charge (in absence of the superintendent) of any cemetery or burial
place, who shall permit any other person than a duly licensed under-
taker, assistant or employee to deliver for burial or offer for cremation

*See important foot-note on page 1150, relative to the validity and operation of
sections 230 to 247, sub-title "Undertakers," particularly of sections 236. 237
and 244.