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LAWS OF MARYLAND,
indexes thereto, and issue certified statements of the facts relat-

Certificates
received.

ing to any birth or death. For each such certified statement
he shall receive a fee of twenty-five cents, together with a pay-
ment for the time of search, if over half an hour, at the rate
of fifty cents an hour, to be paid by the person asking such
certified statement.
6 M. Any physician or midwife, coroner or undertaker, whose
duty it is, who fails to report a birth as provided by section 6 G
of this article, shall be liable to a tine of not less than five nor

Failure to
report a
birth sub-
ject to a
fine.

more than twenty-five dollars, or be imprisoned not less than
thirty days, or be both fined and imprisoned, in the discretion
of the court. Any undertaker, express agent, railroad official
or employe, or other person controlling, directing or in charge
of the interment, entombment, removal or other disposition of
the body of a deceased person before the record shall be made
as required by section 6 o of this Act shall be liable to a fine
of not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars, or to
be imprisoned not to exceed thirty days, or to both fine and
imprisonment. Any physician who shall refuse or fail to make
a proper and correct certificate of the cause of death of any
person upon whom he or she was the last medical attendant, to
the best of his knowledge or belief, shall be liable to a fine of
not less than five nor more than fifty dollars, or to be impris-
oned not to exceed thirty days, or to both fine and imprison-
ment. Any registrar who shall, without justifiable cause,
neglect or refuse to perform any of the duties enjoined on him
by this Act, or who shall communicate to any person not author-
ized to receive the same, any of the personal or statistical facts
recorded on his register, shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding
three hundred dollars.

Expenses
defrayed.

6 N. To defray the necessary expenses of the office of State
Registrar of Vital Statistics, including rent, stationery, books
or record, printed form of certificates and permits, indexes,
postage and clerical expenses, the State Board of Health shall
receive a sum of three thousand dollars annually, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, at such times and in such sums as
may be directed by the board.
7. Each member of the State Board of Health shall receive

Compensa-
tion.

the sum of five dollars per day for each day's attendance at the
meetings of the board, and while employed in the service of
the board. Such necessary expenses of the board as the Comp-
troller of the Treasury shall audit, on presentation of an item-
ized account, with vouchers, and the certificates of the board