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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, 1924, sec. 12. 1912, 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.

27. 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, 1924, sec. 13. 1912, 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.

28. 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
interment of United States soldiers, sailors and marines, and Seven Hun-
dred and Fifty Dollars ($750.00), and no more, shall be annually applied
to and be disbursed for the interment of Confederate soldiers, sailors and
marines.

Pauper or Vagrant Children.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 14. 1912, sec. 12. 1908, ch. 42.

29. 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 diseased child for the purpose
of placing such child in any home in Maryland or procuring the placing of
such child in Maryland by indenture, adoption or otherwise, without first
obtaining the written consent of the Board of Public Welfare of Mary-
land, and complying with the following requirements: Before such person,
corporation, association 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 Public Welfare 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 Public Wel-
fare of Maryland, said bond to be conditioned "that they will, at once, upon
the placing of any such child, report to the Board of Public Welfare 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