1786 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 767

Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Health", sub-
title "Manufacture and/or Sale of Mattresses and Re-
lated Articles", to provide for an optional method of
making payment of inspection fees.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Paragraph H of Section 64 of Article 43
of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Health", sub-
title "Manufacture and/or Sale of Mattresses and Related
Articles", be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, with amendments, so as read as follows:

(H) The Director of Health shall upon application to
him by any person entitled thereto, register such applicant,
and assign a registry number by which number said ap-
plicant shall thereafter be known and designated in ap-
plying and enforcing the tagging, inspection and adhesive
stamp provisions of this section, and thereupon he shall
furnish to such applicant adhesive stamps in quantities of
not less than one thousand for which the applicant shall
pay Ten Dollars for each thousand stamps, which said pay-
ment and charge shall constitute an inspection charge for
the purpose of enforcing this section.

The Director of Health is hereby authorized to prepare
and cause to be printed adhesive stamps, which shall bear
. a replica of the seal of the State, the registry number of
the person applying therefor, and such other matter as the
Director shall direct.

It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, lease, offer
to sell or lease, to deliver or to have in his possession with
intent to sell, lease, deliver or consign any article covered
by this section unless there shall be attached to the tag re-
quired by this section, by the person manufacturing, reno-
vating, sterilizing or offering for sale the same, an ad-
hesive stamp prepared and issued by the Director of
Health, as hereinbefore provided [. ], except that any per-
son desiring to do so may make application to the Director
of Health for a license, which, if issued, will relieve the
holder of the above requirement that an inspection stamp
be attached to every tag. Every such application for a li-
cense shall be accompanied by a fee of Twenty-five Dollars
($25. 00). Each license shall expire one year from the date
of issuance, unless sooner revoked.

Every holder of a license shall make a report to the Di-
rector of Health every three months. Such report shall
show the exact number of articles manufactured in or