1204 HEALTH. [ART. 43

1898, ch. 312, sec. 6 N.

19. To defray the necessary expenses of the office of State
registrar of vital statistics, including rent, stationery, books of
record, printed form of certificates and permits, indexes, postage
and clerical expenses, the State board of health shall receive a
sum of eighteen hundred dollars annually, or so .much thereof
as may be necessary, at such times and in such sums as may
be directed by the board.

1888, art 43, sec. 7 1880, ch. 438, sec. 8 1898, ch. 312.

20. Each member of the State board of health shall receive
the sum of five dollars per day for each day's attendance at the
meetings of the board, and while employed in the service of the
board. Such necessary expenses of the board as the comp-
troller of the treasury shall audit, on presentation of an itemized
account, with vouchers, and the certificates of the board shall
be paid; provided, that such expenses shall not exceed
annually the sum of two thousand dollars which is hereby
appropriated from any money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated.

Ibid, sec 8. 1886, ch. 22, sec. 1. 1898, ch. 312 1902, ch. 159.

21. Whenever the State board of health shall have cause to
believe that there is any danger of cholera, small-pox or other
contagious or infectious disease invading the State or country,
it shall be the duty of the said board to take such action and
adopt and enforce such rules and regulations as may be neces-
sary to prevent the introduction or spread of such infectious or
contagious disease within this State, and any person or persons
or corporations refusing or neglecting to obey such rules and
regulations, after due notice thereof, shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not
more than five hundred dollars for every such offense. When-
ever necessary, the State board of health may call public con-
ference of health officers, or may, by a vote of a majority of
its members, send a delegate to any conference of local, State
or national health officers.

Ibid sec. 9. 1886, ch. 22, sec. 2.

22. The board of county commissioners of the several
counties in this State shall, ex officio, constitute a local board
of health for their respective counties and shall have and
exercise all the duties of a board of health as provided in this
article except in cases where the charter of any city or town in
the State contains provisions inconsistent therewith.