98 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 59

and of the time, place and manner of destruction, shall
be kept, and a return under oath, reporting said destruc-
tion, shall be made to the court or magistrate and to the
United States Commissioner of Narcotics; by the officer
who destroys them.

(b) Upon written application by the State Department
of Health, the court or magistrate by whom the forfeiture
of narcotic drugs has been decreed may order the delivery
of them except heroin and its salts and derivatives, to said
State Department of Health for distribution or destruc-
tion, as hereinafter provided.

(c) Upon application by any hospital within this State,
not operated for private gain, the State Department of
Health may in its discretion deliver any narcotic drugs that
have come into its custody by authority of this section to
the applicant for medicinal use. The State Department of
Health may from time to time deliver excess stocks of such
drugs to the United States Commissioner of Narcotics, or
shall destroy the same.

(d) The State Department of Health shall keep a full
and complete record of all drugs received and of all drugs
disposed of, showing the exact kinds, quantities, and forms
of such drugs; the persons from whom received and to whom
delivered; by whose authority received, delivered and de-
stroyed; and the dates of the receipt, disposal, or destruc-
tion, which record shall be open to inspection by all Fed-
eral and State officers charged with the enforcement of
Federal and State Narcotic laws.

2850. On the conviction of any person of the violation
of any provision of this sub-title, a copy of the judgment
and sentence, and of the opinion of the court or magistrate,
if any opinion be filed, shall be sent by the clerk of the
court, or by the magistrate, to the board or officer, if any,
by whom the convicted defendant has been licensed or reg-
istered to practice his profession or to carry on his busi-
ness. And such board or officer shall have the power to
revoke such license or registration. A duplicate copy of
the judgment and sentence and opinion, if any opinion be
filed, shall be sent to the State Department of Health.

Any physician, dentist, pharmacist or veterinarian who
is or shall become addicted to the drug habit shall have his
license suspended by the Board under which he has been
licensed until such time as such physician, dentist, phar-
macist or veterinarian shall offer satisfactory proof to the
State Board of Health of having become cured of such