WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 667

	SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the secretary
	shall be the superintendent of vital statistics ; he	Vital statis-
	shall collect, tabulate and index these statistics, and	tics.
	cause the returns received by him for each annual
	or biennial period to be bound together in one
	volume, and after he has prepared from the returns
	such tabular results as will render them of practical
	utility, he shall deposit them in the State library ;
	and in order to secure uniformity and correctness, all
	State and county officers, local health authorities
	and other persons, charged with collecting or record-
	ing marriages, births and deaths in the State, shall
	quarterly, on or before the first days of January,
	April, July and October in each year, make true	Make true
	and correct returns to the said superintendent of	and correct
	vital statistics, who shall have the same properly	returns.
	transcribed in books to be kept for the purpose, and
	shall, in the event of an unusual mortality in any
	particular locality, make immediate inquiry into the same and report the results thereof to the board ;
	for the duties imposed by this section, and to defray
	the necessary clerical and other expenses of his of-
	fice, the superintendent of vital statistics shall re-
	ceive the same compensation now allowed by section
	nine, chapter one hundred and thirty, acts of eigh-
	teen hundred and sixty-five, to the clerks of the
	several county courts, and the Court of Common
	Pleas of Baltimore, for recording marriages, births
	and deaths, to be paid as the salary of the secretary
	is paid ; provided the amount so paid in any one
	year shall not exceed the sum of two hundred dol-
	lars.
	SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That no member of
	the board, except the secretary, shall receive any
	compensation ; but the actual personal expenses of
	any member, while engaged in the duties of the
	board, and such necessary expenses of the board as	Who to re-
	the Comptroller of the Treasury shall audit, on pre-	ceive com-
	sentation of an itemized account, with vouchers,	pensation.
	and the certificates of the board, shall be allowed
	and paid; provided said expenses shall not exceed,
	annually, the sum of twelve hundred dollars, which
	is hereby appropriated from any money in the treas-
	ury not otherwise appropriated.
	Approved April 14, 1880.