ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1361

United States Government or to officials, boards or commis-
sions of the United States Government or the State of Mary-
land or its political subdivisions.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 27 of Article 43 of the Annotated
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, Edition of 1924,
title "Health, " sub-title "State Registrar of Vital Statistics, "
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read
as follows:

27. The State Registrar may upon request furnish any
applicant for proper purposes a certified copy of the record of
any birth or death registered under the provisions of this sub-
title, and any such copy of the record of a birth or death, when
properly certified by the State registrar to be a true copy there-
of, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places of the
facts therein stated. For each such certified statement he shall
receive a fee of fifty cents, together with payment for the time
of search, if over half an hour, at the rate of fifty cents an
hour, to be paid by the applicant. Provided that no charge
shall be made for a copy of any certificate requested by any
person formerly in the military, air or naval service of the
United States Government, when such certificate is to be used
in connection with any claim such person may have against the
said Government, nor shall any charge be made for any certifi-
cate requested by any officer, agent, commission, board or
bureau of the United States Government or the State of Mary-
land, or any county or municipality of this State.

Approved April 11, 1929.

CHAPTER 561.

AN ACT to add a new Article to Bagby's Annotated Code of
Maryland, said new Article to follow immediately after
Article 72, and to be known as Article 72A, and to be en-
titled "Parent and Child, " and relate to the natural and
testamentary guardianship of minor children, and to pa-
rental rights in general.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new Article be and the same is hereby added