ART. 88A] BURIAL OF SOLDIERS——PAUPER CHILDREN. 1963

1904, art. 88 A, sec. 10. 1904, ch. 663, sec. 3. 1906, ch. 822. 1910, ch. 548 (p. 435).

10. 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 public charges.

Ibid. sec. 11. 1904, ch. 663, sec. 4. 1906, ch 822. 1910, ch. 548 (p. 435).

11. The sum of fifteen hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year 1910, and the
like sum of fifteen hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, for the fiscal year 1911, for the objects above mentioned;
and of the sum of fifteen hundred dollars herein appropriated the
sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750), and no more, shall
be annually applied to and be disbursed for the payment of the inter-
ment of United States soldiers, sailors and mariners, and seven hun-
dred and fifty dollars ($750), and no more, shall be annually applied to
and be disbursed for the payment of the interment of Confederate
soldiers, sailors and mariners.

Pauper or Vagrant Children.

1908, ch. 42.

12. It shall be unlawful for any person, corporation, association
or institution to bring, or send, or receive, or cause to be brought, or
sent, or received into the State of Maryland, any actual pauper,
vagrant, criminal, incorrigible, insane or helplessly crippled or dis-
eased child for the purpose of placing such child in any home in Mary-
land or procuring the placing of such child in Maryland by indenture,
adoption or otherwise, without first obtaining the written consent of
the board of state aid and charities of Maryland, and complying with,
the following requirements: Before such person, corporation, asso-
ciation or institution shall bring, or send, or receive, or cause to be
brought, or sent or received any such child into this State, they shall
furnish to the said board of state aid and charities of Maryland an
indemnity bond in favor of the State of Maryland in the penal sum
of ten thousand ($10,000) dollars, to be approved by said board of
state aid and charities of Maryland, said bond to be conditioned "that
they will, at once, upon the placing of any such child, report to the
board of state aid and charities of Maryland its name and age, and
the name and residence of the person with whom it is placed; that if
any such child shall, before it reaches the age of twenty-one years,
become a public charge, they will, within thirty days after the written
notice shall have been given them of such fact by the said board of
state aid and charities of Maryland, remove such child from the State;
that they will not place, or cause to be placed, any such child, except
under written contract which will secure such child a proper home and
will make the person so receiving the child responsible for its proper
care, education, and training; that they will properly supervise the
care and training of such child, and cause such child to be visited, at
least once in six months, by a responsible person, and that they will