860 STATE AID AND CHARITIES. [ART. 88A

ARTICLE LXXXVIIIA.

STATE AID AND CHARITIES.

8-11. Interment of deceased soldiers and sailors of Civil War, expense to be borne
by State; provisos; limitations; appropriations.

Burial of Soldiers.

1904, art. 88A, sec. 8. 1904, ch. 663, sec. 1. 1906, ch. 822. 1910, ch. 548 (p. 435).
1912, ch. 469, sec. 1. 1914, ch. 61.

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 case more
than thirty-five dollars; provided, that said expenses shall only be
borne by the State of Maryland in the event that such deceased soldier,
sailor or mariner 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).
1912, ch. 469, sec. 2. 1914, ch. 61.

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 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 Commissioner
living nearest the place where the deceased shall have lived, or the
certificate of a health officer; said certificate also to bear the endorse-
ment 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.

Ibid. sec. 10. 1904, ch. 663, sec. 3. 1906, ch. 822. 1910, ch. 548 (p. 435).
1912, ch. 469, sec. 3. 1914, ch. 61.

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.