ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR 1277

CHAPTER 667.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article C, Public General
Laws of Maryland, Volume 4, Annotated Code of Mary-
land, 1918, to be known as Section 8-A.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be added to Article C, Code of Pub-
lic General Laws, Volume 4, to follow Section 8 and to be
known as Section 8-A, the same to read as follows -.

SEC. 8-A. Whenever minors engaged in theatrical per-
formances in Baltimore, regularly employed and with traveling
theatrical companies shall hold certificates permitting their em-
ployment from the accredited representatives of other States
or cities, then and in that event, the Bureau of Statistics and
Information, on the payment of the sum of five dollars ($5.00)
in each case and the exhibiting of said certificates shall issue
a certificate permitting the appearance in the theatrical per-
formances of the minor or minors named in said certificate,
which said permit shall entitle the minor or minors therein
named to appear for one week in the City of Baltimore in said
theatrical performances.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the first day of June, 1920.

Approved April 9, 1920.

CHAPTER 668.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the State Veterinary Medical
Board to register Andrew R. Hitchcock in its registry of
practitioners of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, and
issue to him a certificate to practice Veterinary Medicine
and Surgery in the State of Maryland.

WHEREAS, Andrew R. Hitchcock, formerly a citizen of Penn-
sylvania, now a resident of Frederick County, State of Mary-
land, was taken ill in the year 1893, while a student in the
University of Pennsylvania in the last year of his course in
Veterinary Medicine and Surgery; and

WHEREAS, His illness was of such character that upon his
recovery his health was then so impaired that it was deemed
inadvisable by his physician for him to undergo the necessary
confinement incident to graduating in Veterinary Medicine-
and Surgery at said University; and