1962 STATE AID AND CHARITIES. [ART. 88A.

means committee of the house of delegates and shall perform such
duties in the line of his employment and make such investigations
and reports as may be imposed upon him by these committees.

1904, art. 88 A, sec. 7. 1900, ch. 679, sec. 8. 1904, ch. 549, sec. 8.
7. The sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any funds
not otherwise appropriated for each of the fiscal years ending respec-
tively on the thirtieth day of September, 1905, and the thirtieth day
of September, 1906, for the payment of all the salaries and other
expenses made nesessary by this act, and the treasurer of the State
shall, upon warrant of the comptroller of the treasury, pay the said
sums of money herein appropriated for the objects and purposes here-
inbefore specified to or upon the order of the president of said board.

Burial of Soldiers.

Ibid. sec. 8. 1904, ch. 663, sec. 1. 1906, ch. 822. 1910, ch. 548 (p. 435).
8. The expenses of the interment of the bodies of deceased sailors,
soldiers and mariners who served in the United States or Confederate
States army or navy between the years 1861-1865, and were honor-
ably discharged, shall be paid by the State of Maryland; provided,
that the expenses of said interment shall not exceed in any one caae
more than thirty-five dollars; and provided, that said expenses shall
only be borne by the State of Maryland in the event that such deceased
soldier, sailor or marine left no estate, and that the death occurred in
the State of Maryland.

Ibid. sec. 9. 1904, ch. 663, sec. 2. 1906, ch. 822. 1910, ch. 548 (p. 435).

9. The comptroller of the treasury is hereby authorized and
directed to issue his warrant on the treasurer of the State to pay the
expense hereinbefore mentioned; 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 coun-
ties of the State then a certificate of the county commissioner living
nearest the place where the deceased shall have lived, or the certifi-
cate of a health officer; 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 association of the
Maryland Line, as to the service of the deceased.