402 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

taking outside of the City of Baltimore, Anne Arundel County,
Baltimore County, Carroll County, Frederick County, Howard
County, Montgomery County, Somerset County and Talbot
County, in the State of Maryland, and all assistants and
employees of any such person, co-partnerships or corporations
and officers of such corporations, whose duties involve him or
her having charge of the care, preparation, disposition or
burial of the dead, at the time of the passage of this Act, to
cause, on or before the first day of July next following the pas-
sage of this Act, his, her, their or its name or names, residence
and place of business and whether an employer or employee
to be registered with said board, whose secretary shall keep a
book for the purpose, and enter such registration therein upon
the payment of a fee of five dollars for each person, co-part-
nership or corporation so applying, and in the event of a
corporation applying, the president thereof shall make such
application on the part of the said corporation. The applica-
tion shall be in writing and signed by such applicant or appli-
cants under oath, stating that he, she or they are legitimately
engaged in the undertaking business, accompanied by a cer-
tificate from two reputable citizens of the State that they know
such applicant or applicants to be so engaged either as a
principal or assistant undertaker. The secretary shall then
issue to such person, co-partnership or corporation applying a
transcript from said book, certified to by its secretary and
attested by the seal of the said board.

SEC. 14a. Be it enacted, That none of the provisions of this
Act shall apply to Calvert, St. Mary's and Charles counties.

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

Approved April 11, 1910.

CHAPTER 444.

AN ACT to repeal Section 8 of Chapter 160 of the Acts of
1902, as amended by Chapter 389 of the Acts of 1904, as
amended again by Chapter 496 of the Acts of 1908, entitled
"An Act to create and establish the State Board of Under-
takers of Maryland, and to prescribe the powers and duties
of said Board," and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 8 of Chapter 160 of the Acts of 1902, as
amended by Chapter 389 of the Acts of 1904 and again