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operate to prohibit the placing on the counters of such licensed
person, pretzels, cheese or crackers for the use, without cost
thereto, of the patrons of such licensed person; and provided
further, that the placing by such licensed person of any viands,
food or lunch, other than that hereinbefore excepted at any
place on his premises for the free use of his patrons, shall be
prima facie a violation of this Act.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 6, 1908.

CHAPTER 42.

AN ACT to regulate the importation into the State of Mary-
land of actual paupers, vagrant, criminal, incorrigible, insane
or helplessly crippled or diseased children, and providing a
penalty for the violation thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That it shall be unlawful for any person, corporation,
association or institution to bring, or send, or receive, or cause
to be brought, or sent, or received into the State of Maryland,
any actual pauper, vagrant, criminal, incorrigible, insane or
helplessly crippled or diseased child for the purpose of placing
such child in any home in Maryland or procuring the placing
of such child in Maryland by indenture, adoption or otherwise,
without first obtaining the written consent of the Board of
State Aid and Charities of Maryland, and complying with the
following requirements: Before such person, corporation, asso-
ciation or institution shall bring, or send, or receive, or cause
to be brought, or sent or received any such child into this State,
they shall furnish to the said Board of State Aid and Chari-
ties of Maryland an indemnity bond in favor of the State of
Maryland in the penal sum of ten thousand ($10, 000) dollars,
to be approved by said Board of State Aid and Charities of
Maryland, said bond to be conditioned "that they will, at once,
upon the placing of any such child, report to the Board of
State Aid and Charities of Maryland its name and age, and
the name and residence of the person with whom it is placed;
that if any such child shall, before it reaches the age of twenty-
one years, become a public charge, they will, within thirty
days after the written notice shall have been given them of such
fact by the said Board of State Aid and Charities of Maryland,
remove such child from the State; that they will not place, or
cause to be placed, any such child, except under written con-