ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1443

names and addresses of the persons composing such co-
partnership, and if such application shall be made by a
corporation, it shall state the names and addresses of the
officers and directors of said corporation, and upon payment
of a license fee of live dollars such person, co-partnership or
corporation shall receive from the State Board of Under-
takers of Maryland a license which shall authorize the person,
co-partnership or corporation named therein to carry on the
business of undertaking in the State of Maryland up to and
including the first day of May next succeeding the granting
of such license. And such license may be renewed annually
upon the payment to the State Board of Undertakers of
Maryland of an annual renewal license fee of five dollars
by such person, co-partnership or corporation to whom such
license shall have been issued. Such license shall be signed
by the Secretary of the State Board of Undertakers of Mary-
land and attested by its seal, and such licenses may be issued
by the Secretary of said board during the interim of the meet-
ings of the said board upon proper application and the pay-
ment of such license fee of five dollars.

236A. Before any person, co-partnership or corporation
shall hereafter engage in the business of Undertaking in this
State and before any person, co-partnership or corporation now
so engaged in said business in this State, who shall fail to reg-
ister with said Board in accordance with Section 236 of this
Act, shall continue to carry on said business of Undertaking
in this State, such person, co-partnership or corporation shall
apply to said Board of Undertakers for a license to carry on
the business of Undertaking and all such individuals, mem-
bers of such co-partnership and officers and employees of such
corporation whose duties shall engage him or her in the care,
preparation for burial, burial or shipment of dead human
bodies and the disinfection of the clothing and bedding of such
deceased person who shall have died from an infections or con-
tageous disease or the premises in which he or she shall have
died, shall present himself or herself before said Board at the
time and place to be fixed by said Board and if the Board shall
find, upon due examination and the payment of an examina-
tion fee of twenty-five dollars, that the applicant or applicants
are of good moral character, twenty-one years of age and free
from habits liable to interfere with the performance of the
duties that lie or she desires to perform, then said applicant or
applicants shall be examined as to the proper sanitation and