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so paid within thirty days from the filing of said award
and confirmation by said court, or in the case of an appeal,
within thirty days from the confirmation of said award
by the Court of Appeals, the amount of the award shall
be a decree against the said corporation, which decree shall
be a prior lien to any mortgage or other lien placed on its
property or franchises by the consolidated corporation or,
in the case of a merger, by the surviving corporation after
such merger has become effective, and may be collected as
other decrees in said court are by law collectible.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1949.

Approved April 29, 1949.

CHAPTER, 453

(Senate Bill 291)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sec-
tion 25 (b) of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1947 Supplement), title "Health, " sub-title "State
Registrar of Vital Statistics, " raising the fees for birth
and death certificates in Charles County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 25 (b) of Article 43 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1947 Supplement), title "Health, " sub-title
"State Registrar of Vital Statistics, " be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as fol-
lows:

25.

(b) The local registrar shall receive for performing the
services required under this sub-title the following fees:
For each proper and correct certificate of birth or death
as provided in this sub-title, except those transmitted to
him by any deputy local registrar, and for each monthly
report rendered to the State Registrar reporting that no
certificates have been received, the sum of fifty cents to be
paid by the County upon warrant of the County Commis-
sioners, and in the case where such certificates are trans-
mitted by the deputy local registrar such deputy local
registrar shall receive such fee in his stead. For each
transcript of a birth or death as provided in Section 16 of