332 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 219

title, the sum of fifty cents to be paid by the county upon
warrant of the County Commissioners.

(b) The local registrar shall receive for performing the
services required under this sub-title the following fees: For
each proper and correct certificate of birth or death as pro-
vided in this sub-title, except those transmitted to him by any
deputy local registrar, and for each monthly report rendered
to the State Registrar reporting that no certificates have been
received, the sum of fifty cents to be paid by the county upon
warrant of the County Commissioners, and in the case where
such certificates are transmitted by the deputy local registrar
such deputy local registrar shall receive such fee in his stead.
For each transcript of a birth or death as provided in Section
16 of this Article to be transmitted to the county registrar,
the local registrar shall receive the sum of ten cents, to be
paid by the county upon warrant of the County Commis-
sioners. The State Registrar shall certify to the County Com-
missioners of each county annually, or oftener, the number of
properly executed certificates of births and deaths received
from each local or deputy local registrar for which fees are
provided by this section for the year or portion of a year
included.

(c) The State Registrar shall certify on each payment
voucher the total amount owing to each local or deputy local
registrar for that county for the period covered by such
voucher, provided that the State Registrar shall certify sepa-
rately the number of incomplete, defective or belated certifi-
cates, and for such incomplete, defective or belated certificates
a fee shall be certified equal to one-half the amount of com-
pensation provided in this section for proper and correct cer-
tificates and records of births and deaths.

(d) Local and deputy local registrars are entitled to receive
a fee of fifty cents from the applicant for each disinterment
permit issued in accordance with the provisions of Section 20
of this Article.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect January 1, 1948.

Approved March 29, 1947.

CHAPTER 219.
(House Bill 184)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
249 of Article 12 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-