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raised by licenses, fees, taxation or otherwise, and which after being paid
over, according to law, to the Treasurer, are required by law to be by him
paid over, in whole or in part, to any county or city, or to any department,
commission, board or officer of any such county or city of the State.
See art. 3, sec. 52, of Md. Constitution.

Burial of Soldiers and Sailors.

An. Code, sec. 8. 1904, sec. 8. 1904, ch. 663, sec. 1. 1906, ch. 822. 1910, ch. 548 (p. 435).
1912, ch. 469, sec. 1. 1914, ch. 61. 1916, ch. 90, sec. 1.

10. The expense of the interment of the bodies of deceased soldiers,
sailors and marines who served in the United States or Confederate States
Army or Navy, between the years 1861-1865, and were honorably dis-
charged, shall be paid by the State of Maryland; provided, the expenses
of said interment shall not exceed in any one case 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 death occurred in the State of Maryland.

An. Code, sec. 9. 1904, sec. 9. 1904, ch. 663, sec. 2. 1906, ch. 822. 1910, ch. 548 (p. 435).
1912, ch. 469, sec. 2. 1914, ch. 61. 1916, ch. 90, sec. 2.

11. The Comptroller of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorized
and directed to issue his warrant on the Treasurer of the State of Mary-
land to pay the expense hereinbefore mentioned; that before the Comp-
troller 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
counties of the State, then a certificate of the county commissioners living
nearest the place where the deceased shall have lived, or the certificate of
a Health Officer, and said certificate also to bear the endorsement of the
Commander of the Department of Maryland, Grand Army of the Repub-
lic, or of the Commander, President of the Association of the Maryland
Line, as to the service of the deceased.

An. Code, sec. 10. 1904, sec. 10. 1904, ch. 663, sec. 3. 1906, ch. 822. 1910 ch 548 (p 435)
1912, ch. 469, sec. 3. 1914, ch. 61. 1916, ch. 90, sec. 3.

12. 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.

An. Code, sec. 11. 1904, sec. 11. 1904, ch. 663, sec. 4. 1906, ch. 822. 1910, ch. 548 (p 435)
1912, ch. 469, sec. 4. 1914, ch. 61. 1916, ch. 90, sec. 4.

13. The sum of Fifteen Hundred Dollars, or so much thereof, as may
be necessary, is hereby appropriated and shall be available from June 1st,
1916, to March 31, 1917, and a like sum from June 1st, 1917, to June 1st,
1918, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the objects above men-
tioned ; and of the sum of Fifteen Hundred Dollars herein appropriated
the sum of Seven Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($750.00), and no more,
shall be annually applied to and be disbursed for the payment of the