MISCELLANEOUS BILLS. 403

amended by Chapter 496 of the Acts of 1908, entitled "Au Act
to create and establish the State Board of Undertakers of
Maryland, and to prescribe the powers and duties of said
Board," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted' so
as to read as follows:

SEC. 8. Before any person, co-partnership or corporation
shall hereafter engage in the business of undertaking in the
State of Maryland, and before any member of any such
co-partnership, assistant or employee of any such person,
co-partnership or corporation, or officer of such corporation
whose duties will engage him or her in the care, preparation,
disposition or burial of the dead shall discharge the duties of
such business, employment or office, and before any person,
co-partnership or corporation now so engaged in said business
of undertaking in this State, and before any member of any
such co-partnership, assistant or employee of any such person,
co-partnership or corporation or officer or such corporation
whose duties now engage him or her in the care, preparation,
disposition or burial of the dead, who shall have failed to
register with the said board in accordance with Section 7 of
this Act, shall then continue in such business, such person,
co-partnership or corporation, members of such co-partnerships
and all assistants and employees of any such person, co-part-
nerships or corporations and officers of such corporations,
whose duties engage him or her in the care, preparation, dis-
position or burial of the dead, shall apply by petition to the
said board for a license to practice the same, which petition
shall state whether said applicant purposes to practice said
business as a principal or as an assistant or employee; there-
upon the applicant as aforesaid shall present himself or her-
self before said board at a time and place to be fixed by said
board, and if the said board shall find, upon due examination,
that the applicant is over twenty-one years of age and has
been employed at least two years prior to said application by
some person, firm or corporation actively engaged in the work
of practical embalming and undertaking and is of good moral
character, possessed of skill and knowledge of the said busi-
ness, and has a reasonable knowledge of sanitation,, preserva-
tion of the dead, disinfecting the body of a deceased person,
the apartment, clothing and bedding in case of death resulting
from infectious or contagious disease, the board shall issue to
said applicant, upon the payment of a fee of twenty dollars,
a license to practice said business of undertaking in the State
of Maryland, and shall register such applicant as a duly
licensed principal or assistant undertaker in accordance with
his or her application; provided, however, that said board may
issue such a license to any person between the ages of eighteen