1302 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That an additional Section be added to Article 62 of the
Annotated Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, 1910,
entitled "Marriages," to be known as Section 16 and to read

as follows:

SEC. 16. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Court in
Baltimore City and in the several Counties of the State of
Maryland to transmit to the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the
State Department of Health, upon forms to be supplied by the

said Bureau, a report of each marriage which has been reported
to them under the provisions of Article 62 of the Annotated
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland.

The report shall be made monthly and on or before the
fifteenth (15th) day of the month next succeeding.

It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Court in Baltimore
City and in the several Counties of the State of Maryland to
transmit to the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the State Depart-
ment of Health, a report of the names and residences of the
parties to suits for divorce entered in said Court and to either

of whom decree for divorce has been granted by said Court.

The report shall be made monthly and on or before the
fifteenth (15th) day of the month next succeeding.

For transmitting the said reports to said Bureau the Clerks
of the Court shall receive no compensation other than that pre-
scribed in Section 10 of this Article.

Be it further enacted, That any Clerk who shall fail, within
the time prescribed by this Act, to transmit the proper report
to the Bureau of Vital Statistics of the State Department of
Health, shall upon conviction be subject to a fine of ten dollars
($10) for each offense.

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

Approved April 13th, 1914.

CHAPTER 746.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Chapter 561
of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1912,
title "An Act to create a water and sewer district, to be