PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY. 3947
HEALTH OFFICER.

1912, ch. 695, sec. 245.

657. There shall be a health officer appointed in the same manner as

other appointments are made, who shall be a reputable practicing phy-
sician whose duty it shall be to have charge of any supervision over all
matters of health and health regulations, within the town and he shall re-
ceive such salary or compensation as the Mayor and City Council shall fix.

1912, ch. 695, sec. 246.

658. It shall be the duty of every physician residing and practicing
medicine within the town of Laurel to make a return to the Collector

-of all births and deaths; and also of all contagious and infectious diseases
and report the same to the practicing physicians in said town, and the
said Collector shall also keep a record thereof in a well-bound book or books
to be provided for the said purposes. The said Collector shall issue burial
permits, and no burial or interment shall take place within the town limits
until a permit for the same has been issued by the said Collector.

SAVING CLAUSE.

1912, ch. 695, sec. 246 1/2.

659. All ordinances and resolutions of the Mayor and City Council

of Laurel shall remain in force and have the same legal effect as when
enacted, the intention being not to repeal by any provision hereof any of
the said ordinances, unless they be in conflict herewith.

STREET IMPROVEMENTS.

1894, ch. 545, sec. 246G. 1912 Code, sec. 403.

660. The Mayor and City Council of Laurel, on the written request

-of a majority of the land owners on any street in Laurel, desiring to have
the said street improved, shall have the power and is hereby authorized
to improve the streets of Laurel with brick or other permanent sidewalks,
stone guttering and curbing, and stone or other permanent carriage ways
after first grading and otherwise preparing for proper drainage the streets
to be improved according to a uniform system of grades to be established
by said Mayor and City Council, and according to which all constructions
on said streets shall conform.

1894, oh. 545, sec. 246H. 1912 Code, sec. 404.

661. The total costs of improvements of each street improved, shall be
ascertained by the Mayor and City Council when and as said improvements
are made, and after deducting the costs of the streets crossings and of the
improvements of the intersections along the line of the street improved,
which street crossing and intersections of streets shall be paid for entirely

and exclusively by the Mayor and City Council, the balance of said total