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than voters engaged in preparing or depositing their ballots
and the election officers shall be permitted to be within said
rail, unless by authority of the judges of election, for the pur-
pose of keeping order and enforcing the law. The ballot box
shall be within said rail and not more than six feet therefrom,
the expense of providing such booths or compartments and
guard-rail shall be a public charge, and the same, after the
election is over, shall be preserved by the Supervisors of
Elections for subsequent use.

Approved April 13th, 1922.

CHAPTER 226.

AN ACT to repeal Section 23 of Article 43^ of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, title "Health", and to re-enact the
same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 23 of Article 43 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland, title "Health", be and the same is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

23. It shall be the duty of the state board of health to take such
action and adopt and enforce such rules and regulations as
may be necessary to prevent the introduction of any
infectious or contagious disease into this state, or to
prevent the spread of any infectious or contagious disease
whether or not such disease shall exist within this State at
the time of the passage of this act, and any person or persons
or corporations refusing or neglecting to obey such rules and
regulations, after due notice thereof, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined
not more than five hundred dollars for every such offense.
Whenever necessary, the state board of health may call public
conference of health officers, or may, by a vote of a majority
of its members, send a delegate to any conference of local,
state or national health officers.

Approved April 13th, 1922.