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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1900-05-18
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS.

of the Code of Public General Laws, title
Husband and Wife, and to re-enact the same
with amendments, be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments SO
as to read as follows:
II. Any married woman may, at whatever
age she may be, relinquish her dover in any
real estate by the joint deed of herself and
husband, or by her separate deed, Tor she may
authorize an agent or attorney to relinquish
the same by a power of attorney, executed
jointly with her husband, or by herself, with
out the joinder of her husband, and in like
manner any husband may re1inquish his inter
est in the real estate of his wife by joint Or
separate deed, may authorize agent or
attorney to re1nquish the same by power of
attorney, executed jointly with his wife, or by
himself without the joinder of his wife.
Approved April 5, 1900.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
Governor.
JOHN HUBNER,
President of the Senate.
LLOYD WILKINSON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
We hereby certify, That the aforegoing is a
correct copy of an Act of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, passed January Session, 1900.
ALFRED RITTER,
Secretary of the Senate.
B. L. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1900-05-18
CHAPTER III.

CHAPTER 131.
AN ACT TO ADD ADDITIONAL SECTION
TO ARTICLE II OF THE CODE OF
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS, It'll E
GRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS, SUB
TITLE JURISDICTION, PROCEDURE
PROCEDURE INDICTMENTS" TO BE
KNOWN AS "SECTION 2e1C."
Section I. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That additional
section be added to Article Fl of the Code of
Public General Laws, title "Crimes and Pun
ishments," subtitle Jurisdiction, Procedure
and Sentence subdivision procedure In
dictments,'' to be known as "Section 2oIC,'
and to read follows:
2eIC. In every Indictment for the violation
of any ordinance of any incorporated city or
town of this State, it shall not be necessary to
set forth copy of the said ordinance, or any
particular section thereof; but every such
Indictment shall be sufficient if it recites the
number of the ordinance alleged to have been
violated, with the date of its passage, or, if
the ordinance has been embraced in cod1hca-
ton, if it refers to the number of the Article
and section of such codifcation containing
such ordinance, and conforms to the rules of
law governing the framing of indictments for
violation of Acts of the General Assembly of
this State, and concludes against the form of
the ordinance in such case made and provided,
and against the peace, government and dignity
of the State.
Section 2. And be it enacted, That this Act
shall take effect from the date of its passage.
Approved March 29, 1900.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
Governor.
John HUBNER,
President of the Senate.
LLOYD WILKINSON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
We hereby certify, That the aforegoing is a
correct copy of all Act of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, passed January Session 1900.
ALFRED RITTER,
Secretary of the Senate.
B. L. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1900-05-18
CHAPTER I.35.

AN ACT TO REPEAL SECTION II OF AR
TICLE as OF THE MARYLAND CODE
OF PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS, TITLE
HUSBAND AND WIFE," AS REPEALED
AND RE-ENACTED BY THE ACT OF
1898, CHAPTER 457, AND E-ENACT THE
SAME WIT'I AMENDMENTS.
Section I. E It enacted by the General AS
sembly of Ma, land, That Section II of Arti-
Gle As of the Maryland Code of Public General
Laws, title Husband and Wife" as repealed
and re-enacted by the Act of 1898, Chapter
457, be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted so as to read as follows, viz:
Section II. In all cases where leases for a
definite term, or for a term of years, renewa-
BILE forever, have been may hereafter be
made to married woman, and the rent there
in stipulated to be paid, shall be in arrear and
unpaid, it shall be lawful for the landlord to
levy said rent by distress in the same manner
as if the lessee was femme sole; and in case
of sufficient distress being found on said
premises, to make such re-entry or bring such
action for recovery of the demised premises as
he or she might do if the lessee were femme
sole, and had covenanted for the payment of
said rents, and to suffer such re entry to be
made.
Section 2. And be it further enacted, That
this Act shall take effect from the date of its
passage.
Approved March 20, 1900.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
Governor.
JOHN HUBNER,
President of the Senate.
LLOYD WILKINSON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
We hereby certify, That the aforegoing is a
correct copy of an Act of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, passed January Session, 1900.
ALFRED RITTER,
Secretary of the Senate.
B. L. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1900-05-18
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS.

We hereby certify, That the aforegoing is a
correct copy of all Act of the General Assembly
of Maryland, passed January Session, 1900.
ALFRED RITTER,
Secretary of the Senate.
B. L. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1900-05-18
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS.
CHAPTER 22.

AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE II OF THE
CODE OF PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS OF
MARYLAND, TITLE "CRIMES AND
PUNISHMENTS, BY ADDING A NEW
SECTION THERETO, TO BE KNOWN AS
SECTION 75A.
Section I. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland That Article II OF the
Code of Public General Laws OF Maryland,
title "Crimes and Pumshments,' be and the
same is hereby amended by the addition of
the following new section, to be known as
Section 75A:
Section 75A If any executor, administra-
tor, guardian, committee, trustee, receiver or
any other fduciary shall fraudulently and
wilful1y appropriate to any use and purpose
not in the due and lawful execution OF his trust
any money or any other thing of value which
may come into his hands as such executor, ad-
ministrator, guardian, committee, trustee, re-
ceiver, or in any other fduciary capacity, or
secrete it with fraudulent intent to appro-
pirate it to such use or purpose, he shall be
deemed guilty of embezzlement, and shall be
punished, upon conviction, by imprisonment
in the penitentiary for not less than one year
nor more than five years.
Approved March I, 1900.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
Governor.
IOHN HUBNER,
President of the Senate.
LLOYD WILKINSON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
We hereby certify, That the aforegoing is a
correct copy of an Act of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, passed January Session, 1900.
ALFRED RITTER,
Secretary of the Senate.
B.. L. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1900-05-18
CHAPTER 2S.


AN ACT TO REPEAL AND RE-ENACT
WITH AMENDMENTS SECTION IS OF
ARTICLE g. OF THE CODE OF PUBLIC
GENERAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF
MARYLAND, ENTITLED MECHANICS
LIENS"
Section I. Be it enacted by the General AS
sembly of Maryland, That Section As of Arti-
Gle 63 of the Code of Public General Laws of
the State of Maryland, entitled "Mechanics'
Liens" be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
as. No person shall be entitled to lien un
der the preceding section unless he shall,
within six months from the commencement OF
the building, repairing, equipplng or rehtt1ng
of such boat or vessel, deliver to the Clerk OF
the Circuit Court for the county where the
building, repairing, equlpp1ng or rehtt1ng was
done, or the Clerk of the Superior Court of
Baltimore City, if done in the City of Balti-
more, an account or statement verified by the
oath of the claimant, taken and subscribed
before some Justice of the Peace, or other Off
Ger, authorized to administer an oath, setting
forth the names OF the claimant and de btor,
and if the debt was not contracted by the
owner, but by his agent, the of such
agent, the name of other certain description
of the boat or vessel, and the place where
built, repaired, equipped or rehtted, and the
particulars or items OF the claim or debt; and
which account or statement shall be redeliv-
cred by such clerk to the party filing the
same, after it has been recorded as provided in
Section 49,
Approved March I, 1900.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
Governor.
JOHN HUBNER,
President of the Senate.
LLOYD WILKINSON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates
We hereby certify, That the aforegoing is a
correct copy of an Act of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, passed January Session, 1900.
ALFRED RITTER,
Secretary of the Senate.
B. L. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1900-05-18
CHAPTER 23.

AN ACT TO REPEAL CHAPTER 4o7 OF
THE ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEM-
BLY, OF MARYLAND OF 1898, ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ADD AN ADDITIONAL
SECTION TO ARTICLE 3S OF THE CODE
OF PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS, E N :
TITLED "FINES AND FORFEITURES,"
TOFOLLOW SECTION 3, TO BE KNOWN
AS SECTION d.
Assembly of Maryland, That Chapter 4o7 of
the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland
of 1868, entitled an 'Act to add an additional
section to Article 38 of the Code OF Public
General Laws, entitled Fines and Forfeit
ures,'" to follow Section 3, and to be known
as Section a., be and the same is hereby
repealed provided, that the provisions OF this
Act shall not apply to Washington, Allegany,
Garrett Hartford, Charles, Calvert, Kent, Baltl-
more, ST. Marys, Dorchester Prince Georges,
Carroll, Somerset, Wicomico, Frederick, I albot,
Worcester and Howard Counties.
Section T. And be it further enacted, That
this Act shall take effect from the date of its
passage.
Approved March I, 1900.
John WALTER SMITH,
Governor.
JOHN HUBNER,
President of the Senate.
LLOYD WILKINSON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
We hereby certify, That the aforegoing is a
correct copy of an Act of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, passed January Session, 1900.
ALFRED RITTER,
Secretary of the Senate.
B. L. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1900-05-18
CHAPTER I.3o.

CHAPTER I39.
AN ACT TO ADD AN ADDITIC SEC
TION TO ARTICLE OF tn II OF
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWfsi*> TIED
ATTACHMENTS" TO FSESS~ SEC
TON 4s, AND TO n BE KsoWs rs IS SEG, Sc, :,
HEADING, EMOTIONS TO QUASH AT
TACHMENTS."
Section I. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That new section be
added to Article of the Code of Public Cen
eral Laws, entitled attachments, to follow
Section 4S, and to be preceded by the heading,
"Motions to Quash Attachments" and to be
known Section 4e, and to read as follows:
Section 40. In all cases where a motion to
quash an attachment is made, and testimony
is required to be taken in support of or against
such motion, any party in interest shall have
the right to have such testimony taken orally
in open court.
Section T. And be it further enacted, That
this Act shall take effect from the date of its
passage.
Approved March 20, 1900.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
Governor.
JOHN HUBNER,
President of the Senate.
LLOYD WILKINSON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
we hereby certify, Ihat the a1oregolnS Is
correct copy of an Act of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, passed January Session, 1900.
ALFRED RITTER,
Secretary of the Senate.
B. L. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
CHAPTER Io5.
AN ACT TO. REPEAL SECTION IL OF
CHAPTER 457 OF THE ACTS OF THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND,
PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION
OF 1893, ENTITLED AN ACT TO REPEAL
ARTICLE As OF THE CODE OF PUBLIC
GENERAL LAWS, TITLE "HUSBAND
AND WIFE," AND TO RE-ENACT THE
SAME WITH AMENDMENTS.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That Section of
Chapter 457 of the Acts of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, passed at the January Ses-
sion, 1898, entitled an "Act to repeal Article As
The Portland daily press., 1900-05-22
BRIEFLY TOLD.

Secretary Alger denies that he is
interested in any Cuban railroads.
Edwin r. Wright, who was arrested
on suspicion of having murdered Des-
demona Mae Butler at the home of his
parents in Roxbury Saturday night, was
discharged in the municipal court at Rox-
bury Monday morning.
The Portland daily press., 1900-05-22
nERANI UM S
= 8 Cent, Each.

Last year you used number of our
geraniums at s cents pot. They
gave you perfect satisfaction in
every way. didn't they? You found
the blossoms came beautifully, and
were of a brilliant color. We re-
ceived so many good words for them
as the season progressed, that we
made extensive preparations to sup
ply all demands this year. They are
ready for your selection, and are
strong, healthy plants that will
bloom. bloom, and bloom again,
then keep right on blooming until
frost comes. All colors, 8 cents a
pot.
The Portland daily press., 1900-05-22
Kendall & Whitney,
Federal and Temple SITS.
may2ieodst
GOT 1lOO VOLTS.

New York, May s1.-Chief Engineer
Joseph Farnsworth of the Eastchester
Electric Light company is alive, although
yesterday HOO volts of electricity passed
through his body. Ordinarily 7t0 volts
will kill man.
While Farnsworth was changing the
plugs he accidentally received a shock.
The Portland daily press., 1900-05-22
DIED IN ELECTRIC CHAIR.

New York, May 2i.-Fritz Meyer was
put to death in the electric chair at Sing
Sing prison at sos o'clock this morning
for the murder of Policeman Frederick
Smith ON the night Of October "a, 1891.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-07

yond this minimum the President is 10 he
per cent whenever he shall consider the
same necessary or desirable. In principle
this is not short of an institutional revo-
luton. In practice il would be purely
and simply Caesarism. The Congress can
not make the President arbiter of the size
of the army without surrendering to the
Executive an important part OF the war
making power. which the Constitution
vests in the Legislature alone.
Mr.. Mccall is right in declaring that
such power should be vested in no sim
gle man in Republic. No doubt. as mat
tiers stand, and remembering the scarcely
concealed designs of the combination now
in control of the administration. the priv
ilege of expanding the army for certain
purposes would he of enormous value to
the interests dominating the White House.
At some time it might happen that the
people would show a disposition 10 rise
against the trusts. Then it would be easy
them. Again ii might chance that The
Democratic party carried the country and
elected a President. In that event it
would not be strange if a large military
increase should be regarded as necessary
to keep the President elect from being
inaugurated. The party which stole
Presidential election in 1876 by resort to
corruption, bribery, and crime is hardly
to be trusted not to steal another che in
the future by resort 20 bayonets and
..apid-fire guns.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-07
BosToN's cup DEFENDER.
A Syndicate 10 Build Yacht If II
Can he Finished in Time.

BOSTON, Dec. 6.-Thomas w. Lawson.
the copper king" and party OF Boston
yachtsmen. who contemplate forming a
syndicate to build cup defender. met
here this afternoon. Nothing definite
was done at the meeting, although the
greater part of the afternoon was used
up in the discussion of the matter. After
the meeting Mr.. Lawson was seen by a
reporter. and said:
I'VE really have not done a thing that
is definite as yet The details of the mat
ter were carefully gone over, and as we
did lot know whether or not it is possible
for us to build the boat in time for the
race. nothing definite WAS decided ON.
We shall know tomorrow whether we
have time enough to build a cup defender.
You can say. however. that l have con-
cluded to build boat to defend the cup,
If it is possible to construct her in time.
Mr.. lawson stated that he was not at
liberty to say who the other gentlemen
were that are in the project
Although Mr.. Lawson hints that other
gentlemen are interested in the building
of the yacht, there is rumor to the eff
feet that he will build and race the craft
himself without the financial assistance
Of others. Crowninshield will begin work
at once on the design. and the boat be
built at Lawley's yard in South Boston.
There will be no secrecy in connection
with her construction, and the local
yachtsmen will be permitted to see her
as the work progresses. -'..
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-07
<i,s ulsffon State mcns.
The Vfudication of Enynn.

Charles p. Eaean. sentenced by a court
martial to dismissal from the military
service of the United States. but saved
from that punishment by Mr.. Mckinley,
who committed the sentence TO holiday
on full pay for five wears with the privi-
lege of wearing the Uniform of the rank
from which he was suspended, was yes
terday restored to his position as Com
missary General and honorably retired.
1t is difficult TO treat of this matter
without falling short of the respect which
conventionally is due to the President
of the United States. In the interests of
truth and the honor of the country's gal
liant defenders, however. it is necessary
to say that no greater outrage was ever
perpetrated by executive authority.
Eagan has been rehabilitated. Once
more he has appeared before the country
rs ull-fiedged brigadier general is
charge Of one of our great military de-
partments. He has been placed on the
retired list in the company of noble vet
eran officers whom the country delights
to honor. This Commissary General who
receive immunity for an offence which
would have been almost capital in any
other army, is again distinguished by be-
ing made a permanent public annutant
al the rate of forty-five hundred dollars
a year or Whereabouts.
Were 1t not for considerations of bread
and butter, and the support of their FAM
flies, there is not a doubt that this Eagan
infamy would lead to the resignation of
every gentleman in the army. A like
thing could have no other result in the
army Of any other country. The tale Of
Administration turpitude in connection
with the military establishment appears
to be about complete; but the situation is
one which is logically consequent upon
the evils of Algerism, Eaganism, and Alb
nerism which the combination now in
power established in the earliest days of
MIR. Mckiniey's tenure of ONCE.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-07
CAB REGULATION UPSET.
Ruling on Rights of Haekmen at the
Pennsylvania Depot.

In the Court of Appeals yesterday Jus
tice Morris announced the opinion OF the
court in the case of the District against
William II. Sergeant, which upsets the
cab regulations recently promulgated by
the Commissioners On the establish
ment Of cab service by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company the Commissioners lin
tied the cab privileges on Sixth Street
near the Pennsylvania Railroad station
to the use of the cabs owned by the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company. Sergeant
was arrested by the local police for vio-
lating the regulation promulgated by the
Commissioners in reference to the privi-
leges OF cabmen at the Pennsylvania
Railroad station. He was tried in the Po-
lice Court and was acquitted. The Dis
trict authorities took an appeal from this
judgment to the Court of Appeals. In the
Police Court the District authorities adj
mitted that cabmen other than those en-
ployed by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company were Disseminated against.
Two other cases, those Of the District
against Curry and Hazel, were heard
some time ago by the Court of Appeals,
and that court sustained the defendants.
In disposing Of the Sergeant case the
court said: The Congress of the United
States in the present instance authorized
the Commissioners to locate a cab stand
for the railroad company adjacent to it's
station. Plainly. this was to be done in
subordination to its general rights OF pri-
vate citizens and upon the principle of
equality. There is nothing in the joint
resolution that granted this authority
which would require or justify the Com
missioners to grant an exclusive right on
the streets to the railroad company. and
we so held in the Curry case. The grant
of such an exclusive right was not
proper exercise Of their power. but il was
in excess of it. The utmos. that can be
fairly claimed for the joint resolution is
that it empowers the Commissioners 10
allot a reasonable portion of tine specified
streets for the cabs of the railroad com
pany. This is not one of the cases where
the reasonableness of municipal action is
beyond question by the individual citi-
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-12-07
The ROOz Case.

The incidents which are said to have
caused the death of Oscar l.. Booz recent
~ cadet at West Point, appear so far
as the authorities of that institution are
concerned to be shrouded in mystery
Colonel Mills the Superintendent OF the
Academy. declares that there is nothing to
investigate.
The facts seem to be as follows: The
young man was of sensitive nature. and
not very large physically; and he con-
ceived the idea that he had come 10 West
Point to study and not to engage in fist
fights. Finding that he refused to fight,
an attempt was made to force him into
hand to- hand combat with another cadet
considerably larger and stronger than
himself He refused to fight and was
forced to drink a mixture of red pepper,
and Tobasco sauce. Some of his
stuff also got into his eyes and in
jured his sight. Hot grease was then
poured on his bare feet and tooth
knocked out. He subsequently resigned.
giving weak eyes as the reason for his
resignation After his return home tu-
berculosis of the throat set in and it was
discovered that the membrane of his
throat had been blistered so that ulcers
were produced. The young man died of
tuberculosis arising from this injury. but
refused TO tell his father the names of
the cadets who had 1naltreatcd him.
When all these things were brought to
the knowledge of Colonel Mills, the Com
mandant al the Military Academy, he had
this to say:
81 do not feel called upon to enquire into an
occurrence -oi this kind. There was nothing IN
manly in cadets lciDg called out 10 met
another III personal encounter. We train men
here FOR the army. They must grow up soldiers
and not cowaris They must stand ready 10
meet Az enemy At moments notice. in
the knowledge that they are facing defeat"
Naturally, this statement of the case
does not satisfy the young mans parents,
and it ought not TO satisfy them They
have right to be thoroughly indignant
not only with the cadets who maltreated
their son, but with the man in authority
who practically upholds them Such
crime as this is matter for the West
Point authorities to investigate. and IL
they VIII not do so, Congress should
il is quite true that West Point is in
tended to train men for the army hui i, |
is not supposed 10 train them to be con
mon soldiers. If that were the purpose of |
the Institution il should be made consid- |
erably larger than IL is. and the curricu- |
I';,a should be changed OF course, 1t is |
right that young men who are TO become |
officers in the Regular Army should be |
athletic and brave--they would be of little |
use If they were feeble and cowardly--but !
It is perfectly possible 10 secure this re-
suit without performances which resem- |!
BILE the customs of tie cheyonues and
.paches. 1t is not necessary Ter the
OF its red children and compe! all