PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1315

in which case the certificate of death shall be filled out and
signed by the coroner. In case of death without medical at-
tendance or in case of sudden or violent death in which the
coroner does not deem it necessary to hold an inquest the
certificate of death shall be filled out and signed by the health
officer, and in event of the absence of the health officer to
promptly act, then the local registrar or deputy local registrar
shall execute and sign a proper and correct certificate of death
from the best information available, and all such certificates
of death shall be presented to the undertaker or other person
authorized to make disposition of the body. No person whose
duty it is under the provisions of this Act to make out and
sign a certificate of death shall make out and sign more than
one certificate of death, except those authorized to do so under
the provisions of this Act. In all cases of death from small-
pox, yellow fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever or other contagious
or infectious disease dangerous to public health the interment
shall be conducted according to the rules of the State Boarcl oi
Health.

The transportation of the body of any deceased person from
one district to another district, or from one county into another
county, or from this State into any other State, territory or
District of Columbia, or from this State to any foreign
country, or the transportation of any dead body from any
other State, territory or District of Columbia into this State or
any foreign country into this State, shall be under such rules
and regulations as the State Board of Health shall prescribe.

Transit permits shall only be issued by application to the
local registrar or deputy local registrar upon the presentation
of a proper and complete certificate of death, as provided in
Section 9 of this Act, or an application for a disinterment
permit, as provided in Section 12 of this Act. The same to
be accompanied by a burial permit, which shall be full and legal
authority for interment or other disposition in any part of the
State. The burial permit issued as provided in this Act shall be
full and legal authority for interment in any part of this State.

In the event of the death of any person without the juris-
diction of the United States, or in the event of the death of
a person within the jurisdiction of any of the United States,
where such death is not recorded by the authorities having
jurisdiction, a burial permit may be issued by the local regis-
trar or deputy local registrar at the place to which such body
is conveyed in this State upon presentation of a proper and
correct certificate of death as hereinbefore provided.