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on, or two or more local authorities may combine in providing
a common hospital.

1888, art. 43, sec. 24. 1882, ch. 155, sec. 10.

39. 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 time 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.

State Vaccine Agency.

Ibid. sec. 25. 1864, ch. 269, sec. 1. 1872, ch. 257, sec. 1.

40. 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'is of Allegany Co. v. McClintock, 60 Md. 560.

Ibid sec. 26. 1864, ch. 269, sec. 2.

41. 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, together with the quantities,
qualities and number of times; he shall be required to adver-
tise once a month in one or more of the newspapers 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 provisions of this section the additional sum of
fourteen hundred dollars 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