786 HEALTH—INFECTIOUS DISEASES. [ART. 43.

1882, ch .155, sec 10.

24. Any expenses incurred by the authorities of any city, town
or county, in maintaining in a hospital, or in a temporary place for
the reception of the sick, a patient who is not a pauper, shall be
deemed to be a debt due from such patient to the authorities
aforesaid, and may be recovered from him at any tame within
twelve months after the discharge from such hospital or place of
reception, or from his estate, in the event of his dying in such
hospital.

1864, ch. 269, sec. 1 1872, ch, 257, sec, 1.

25. A State vaccine agency is established; said agency to be
located in the city of Baltimore, in which place shall be kept, at
all times, a supply of fresh and pure vaccine virus, if practicable,
not more than four removes from the cow, for the use of the
physicians residing and practising medicine and surgery in this
State.

Co. Comm'rs of Allegany Co. v. McClintock, 60 Md. 560.

1864, ch 269, sec. 2.

26. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the
senate, shall, once in six years, appoint as State vaccine agent, one
physician of good character and standing, whose duty it shall be
to keep on hand, and to procure as often as may be necessary, pure
vaccine virus, and to furnish such virus to the physicians of the
State, gratuitously, when called for; he shall keep a record of the
name and location of each physician so furnished with virus, to-
gether with the quantities, qualities and number of times; he shall
be required to advertise once a month in one or more of the news-
papers published in the city of Baltimore, and once during the
year (three insertions) in one paper of each county; he shall, for
his services as State vaccine agent, receive an annual salary of six
hundred dollars, and to defray the expenses incurred by him in
procuring reliable vaccine virus; and to further carry out the pro-
visions of this section the additional sum of fourteen hundred dol-
lars is hereby appropriated; said salary to be paid in quarterly
instalments, as other State officers are now paid; and it shall
be competent for the governor, at any time, to remove said
agent for neglect, incompetency or unfaithfulness of any kind;