1444 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 575

disinfection of the clothing and bedding of persons dying from
infectious or contageous diseases and the premises in which
they shall have died; of the Laws of this State and the Local
Laws of the residence of such deceased person relative to
burials and burial permits and the proper care, preparation
for burial and burial or shipment of dead human bodies and
if said applicant or applicants shall pass said examination,
then said Board shall issue to said applicant or applicants,
upon the payment of the fee of five dollars, a license to carry
on said business of Undertaking in the State of Maryland up
to and including the first of May next succeeding the granting
of said license, which license may be renewed annually under
the same terms and provisions as are provided in Section 236
of this Act, provided that nothing contained herein shall apply
to any bona fide employee of a licensed Undertaker acting
under his or her supervision.

237. No license granted or issued under the provisions of
this Act shall be assignable or transferable and such license
shall specify the name of the person, co-partnership or corpora-
tion to whom it is issued and the date on which such license
shall terminate, and such license shall further state that the
person, co-partnership or corporation to whom it has been issued
may carry on the undertaking business in the State of Mary-
land during the period therein specified; and any renewal of
said license shall set out the name of the person, co-partnership
or corporation to whom the same has been issued and the period
for which it has been issued, and no renewal of such license
shall be assignable or transferable.

237A. It shall be the duty of any person or persons engaged
in the profession of embalming dead human bodies in this State
at the time of the passage of this Act to cause, within sixty days
after the passage of this Act, his, her or their name or names,
residence or place of business, to be registered with the State
Board of Undertakers of Maryland, whose Secretary shall keep
a book for that purpose, and upon the payment of a fee of five
dollars the Secretary of said Board shall enter such registration
in said book and said Board shall thereupon issue to such per-
son a license signed by the Secretary of said board and bearing
the seal of the board, which license shall entitle the holder
thereof to practice the profession of embalming in the State of
Maryland.

238. Before any person or persons shall hereafter engage
in the profession of embalming in this State, and before any