ART. 43] LOCAL BOARDS. 1205

1888, art 43, sec 10 1886, ch. 22, sec. 3. 1902, chs 475, 515

23. Such local boards of health shall each appoint in the
month of May, 1902, and biennially thereafter or as soon
thereafter as practicable, a county health officer, who shall be
a well educated physician and wh® by virtue of his appoint-
ment shall be secretary and executive officer of the board, and
upon any vacancy in the office of county health officer his
successor shall be appointed by the local board of health as
soon as practicable; the county health officer shall hold office
for two years from the date of his appointment, but may be
removed by the State board of health for cause upon charges
made and considered at a regular meeting of said board
This section not to apply to Baltimore county.

1904, ch. 384, secs. 1, 2, 3.

24. The local board of health and the county commis-
sioners of the several counties where they exercise such powers
shall, on the first day of April in the year 1904 and on the first
of January in each year thereafter, designate and appoint as sub-
registrars to issue burial permits the physician or physicians
residing in, attending on, or appoint to any college, academy,
boarding school, hospital, retreat, asylum, sanitarium, or other
like place in their respective counties. Such sub-registrars shall
be entitled to receive and charge the sum of fifty cents for each
and every permit so issued. Said sub-registrars shall report to
the local boards of health or to the county commissioners full
and complete lists of all information contained in such permits.

1888, art. 43, sec. 11. 1886, ch. 22, sec. 4. 1902, ch. 475. '

25. The local board of health of each county shall meet
semi-annually in the months of May and October, and as much
oftener as they may deem necessary; they shall act in con-
junction with the State board of health and shall report to said
board such facts in reference to the sanitary condition of their
respective counties as they may deem important or necessary ;
they may adopt and enforce all needful rules and regulations
concerning nuisances and causes of sickness within their respec-
tive jurisdiction, subject to the provisions of this article; they
may regulate all fees and charges in connection with their own
regulations and shall establish the salaries of their respective
county health officers, on the following maximum basis: not
exceeding, in counties having a population of 15,000 or less,
$150 per annum, with an additional allowance of not more than