ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 817

said mayor and common council as the defendant, and said party
appellant shall thereupon be entitled to a jury trial to assess the
amount of damages payable to, or amount of benefits chargeable
against him as the case may be, and the amount assessed as such
damages or benefits by said jury, shall stand in the place and
stead of the assessment thereof by said examiners, and upon said
appeal it shall be competent for the court to quash the proceed-
ings upon the motion of the appellant, for errors or omissions
rendering the same fatally defective, and upon the trial of said
cause in said circuit court, either party may take bills of excep-
tions to any rulings of said court upon matters of law arising in
the progress of such trial, and either party appeal to the court of
appeals of this State from any such rulings, or from the action of
said court in quashing or refusing to quash such proceeding.
Approved April 8, 1890.

	CHAPTER 622.
	AN ACT for the better preservation of the public health.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
	That whenever any physician or person acting as a physician,
	shall know or shall have cause to believe that any person whom
	he has attended during the last illness of such person in this State,
	outside the limits of the city of Baltimore, has died of small-pox,
	cholera, yellow-fever, typhoid or typhus-fever, diphtheria, leprosy, or any other disease of a contagions, infectious or epidemic char-
	acter, the said physician or person acting as a physician shall,	To report
	over his own signature, immediately give notice thereof to the	all deaths from con-
	secretary of the State board of health, which notice shall state the	tagious
	cause of the death, the name, age, sex and color of the deceased,	disease.
	and such other information in connection with the existence and
	spread of the disease, as may be deemed important for the pro-
	tection of the public health; and if no physician has been in at-
	tendance during the last illness, or at the time of the death of
	such person, then it shall be the duty of the householder, in whose
	house or upon whose premises the death occurred, to transmit to
	the secretary of the State board of health the facts in accordance
	with the requirements of this section.
	SEC. 2. That whenever any hotel-keeper, keeper of a boarding
	or lodging-house, superintendent, manager or director of a private
	or public institution of any kind, shall know, or be informed by
	a physician, or shall have reason to believe that any guest, inmatt
	or other person in the hotel, boarding-house, lodging-house or in-
	stitution over which he or she may have control or supervision
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