LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

shall be paid ; provided, that such expenses shall not exceed
annually the sum of three thousand dollars which is hereby
appropriated from any money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated.
8. Whenever the State Board of Health shall have cause to
believe that there is any danger of cholera, small-pox or other

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contagious or infectious disease invading this State or country,
it shall be the duty of the said board to take such action and,
adopt and enforce such rules and regulations as may be neces-
sary to prevent the introduction of such infectious or contagious
disease within this State, and any person or persons or corpora-
tion refusing or neglecting to obey such rules and regulations
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five
hundred dollars for every such offense. Whenever necessary,
the State Board of Health may call public conferences of health
officers, or may by a vote of a majority of its members, send a
delegate to any conference of local, State or National health
officers.

Duty of State
board of
health.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all Acts or parts of Acts
inconsistent with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed,
and that this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 9, 1898.

CHAPTER 313.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections
146 A, 146 B, of Article 81 of the Code of Public General
Laws, title "Revenue and Taxes,'' as passed at the January
session of 1896, and to add a new section to said Article, to
follow Section 146 E, and to be known as Section 146 E — 1.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That sections 146 A, 146 B, of Article 81 of the Code of

Effective.'

Public General Laws, title "Revenue and Taxes," as passed at
the January session of 1896, be and the same are hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendments, and that a new section
be and the same is hereby added to said article to follow section
146 E, and to be known as section 146 E — 1, said sections to
read as follows :

Repeal.

146 A. All mortgagees or assignees holding mortgages of
record in this State, shall annually pay a tax of eight per cen-
tum upon the gross amount of interest covenanted to be paid
each year to said mortgagee or his assigns, by the mortgagor,

Tax of eight
per centum
to be paid.