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MoRTGAeINe OF REAL ESTATE.
CHAPTER 5G3.

CHAPTER 563
AN ACT to add an additional section
to Article 16 of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, to be
known as Section 1854 and to fol
low Immediately after Section 1888
of said Article, relating to the pow
ers of Courts of Equity to authorize
the mortgaging of lands belonging
to estates.
Sec. BE it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland That an
additional section be ana it is here
by added to Article 16 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland,
title, "Chancery," subtitle Sales" to
be known as Section 1854, and to fol
low Immediately after Section 1873 of
said Article, to read as follows:
Sec. 198A-In all cases where one
or more persons is or are entitled to an
tate, for life or years, or to an estate,
tail, fee simple, conditional, base
or qualified fee, or any Otner particu-
lar limited or conditional estate in
lands, and any person or persons is or
are entitled to a remainder or re-
mainders. vested or contingent, or an
exeCutOry device or devices, or any
other interest vested or contingent in
the same land, on application of any
of the parties in interest in Court of
Equity, If all the parties in being are
parties to the proceeding, and If it
shall appear to be advantageous to
the parties concerned may decree
conveyance of the same by way Of
mortgage, and shall direct the invest
ment or other disposition or applica-
ton of the proceeds of such mortgage
so as to enure to the use and benefit
of the same parties who would be en-
titled by the original grant to the
lands so mortgaged, and all such de-
crees, If all the persons are parties
who would be entitled If the
contingency had happened at the date
of the decree. snail bind all persons
whether in being or not, who claim or
may claim any interest in said land
under any of the parties 10 said de-
cree or under any person from whom
any of the parties TO such decree
claim, or from or under or by the or
iginal deed or will by which such par
ticular limited or conditional estate,
with remainders or eXecutOry devices,
were created and the said mortgages
executed in pursuance of such de-
crees, shall bind the estates and in
tereGts in the said lands so mOrtgagei,
of all such persons, whether in being
or not.
Sec. 2-An1 t be further enacted.
That this Act shall take effect from
the date Of its passage.
Approved April s. 1904
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CHAIRS FOR sALEsLADlEs.
CHAPTER 2S7.

AN ACT to repeal Article 81 Section
l47A, of the Code of Public General
Laws, title, Grimes and Punish
ments," subtitle Health, Sales
ladies', Chairs For" and re-enact
the same with amendments.
Sec. BE it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland That Ar
ticle q, Section 147A, OF the Code of
Public General Laws. title. Grimes
and Punishments," subtitle Health,
salesladles, chairs for" Is hereby re
pealed and re-enacted with amend
ments so as to read as follows:
147A.-All proprietors or owners of
any retail, jobbing or wholesale dry
goods store, notion, millinery or any
other business where any female sale
people or other female help are ON
ployed for the purpose of serving the
public, shall provide a chair or stool
for each one of such female help, in
order that when they are not actively
engaged in making sales or taking
stock or in performing such Othc.
duties as they may have been engaged
to perform, they shall have an oppOr-
tunity to rest. and they shall not be
forbidden to avail themselves of such
opportunity.
Any such owner or proprietor who
shall neglect or refuse to obey the pro-
visions of this section shall be consid-
cred to have committed a midemeanor
and shall, upon conviction thereof
be fined in an amount not less than ten
dollars $50, nor more than one hun
dred dollars ($l00) for the first oifense;
and in the event that such proprietor
or owner shall continue to disobey the
provisions of this section, he shall be
subject to a fine at the rate of one dol
lar ($l.00) a day, daily, for every chair
or stool he fails to 80 furnish his said
employees.
1t shall be the duty Of the Board or
Department of Health or Health Com
missioner or Commissioners of the
cities and towns in the State to cause
this section to be enforced, and when
ever any of its provisions are violated
to cause all violators thereof to be
prosecuted, and for that purpose the
Health Commissioner or Commission
ers and the officer or officers of the
Board of Health of every city and town
in the State. or the inspectors there
of, or any other persons designated by
such Board of Health. or Health Com
missioner or Commissioners are author
lied and empowered to visit and In
spect at all reasonable hours and as
often as shall be practicable and nee
essary all mercantile establishments
In the city or town in which the office
of the said Board or Department of
Health or Health Commissioner or
Commissioners is situated. and 1t shall
be unlawful for any person to inter
fere with or Obstruct any such inspect
ing official while in performance Of
his or her duties or 10 refuse TO prop
erly and truthfuly answer questions
made pertinent by this section. when
asked by such inspecting official
Sec. 2-And be it enacted, That this
Act shall take effect thirty 800 days
from the date of its passage.
Approved April T. 1904.
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EDUCATION FOR DEAF MuTEs.
CHAPTER 299.

AN ACT to amend Article n of the
Code of Public General Laws, title
Public Education" by adding three
sections under the subtitle School
Attendance" to follow Section 1873,
and to be numbered as Sections 1879,
40, 14l.
Sec. BE 1t enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That the
following sections be and they are
hereby added to Article u OF the
Code of Public General Laws, title
Public Education" under the sub
title School Attendance, to follow
Section I38, an to be numbered and
designated as sections 1879, lao, l4l.
1879. That every child between
eight and sixteen years Of age, whose
hearing is 80 defective that he or she
cannot attend public school, shall at
tend some school for the deaf for
eight months during the scholastic
year, unless it can be shown that the
child is elsewhere receiving regularly
thorough instruction during the said
period in the studies usually taught in
the said public schools 10 children OF
the same age; provided that the
superintendent or principal OF any
school for the deaf, or persons duly
authorized by such superintendent or
principal, may excuse cases OF neces-
sary absence among its enrolled pu-
pills, and provided, further, that the
provisions OF this section shall not
apply to a child whose mental or
physical condition is such as 10 render
It's instruction, as above described,
inexpedlent or impractiCable. Every
person having under his control a
child between eight and sixteen years
Of age shall cause such child TO at
tend school or receive instruction az
required by this section.
l4O. ANY person who has such a
child under his control and who falls
to comply with any Of the provisions
OF the preceding section shall be
deemed guilty OF miBdemeanOr, and
DO fined not exceeding five dollars for
each ofIense.
l4l. Any person who induces or at
Jcnpts to induce any deaf child to
absent himself or herself unlawfully
from school or employs or harbOrB
while his or her school ID In session
any such child absent unlawfully from
such school shall be deemed guilty OF
4 mlsdemeanOr and be fined not more
han fifty dollars.
Approved April Z, 1904.
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Dispersal Sale
PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS OF 1904 p

crease the number of said bonds on
deposit or substitute bonds of a diff
erent kind in their places, as the Board
OF Public Works may order, then the
SAID company or companies shall be
treated as being in default and shall
be subject to all the penalties imposed
on said companies for doing business
in this State without depositing the
proper securities with the said Treas
urer as now or hereafter provided by
law
Sec. S5N-It shall be lawful for the
stockholders of any life insurance,
accident insurance, safe deposit, trust
or hdelity company, created by spec
lal law or special act, in general meet
ing assembled from time to time to
provide for calling in and cancelling
the whole or any part of the capital
stock and issuing other stock thereof,
at such par value as they shall de-
eide on. to an amount not exceeding
the true value of such stock. in such
manner as to provide such contingent
fund or surplus not represented by
stock as they may decide to be neces-
sary, provided, that notice of every
such meeting of stockholders shall be
given in the manner required by sec
tons 76 and II of Article % of the Code
of Public General Laws and the pro-
ceedings thereafter shall be similar
to those prescribed in sections n and
rs of said Article.
Sec. 2-And be it enacted, That this
Act shall take effect from the date Of
its passage,
Approved April A. 1904
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PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS OF 1904.

the Corporation is situated at the
time of the fling Of the Bill, or, in
case any such Corporation has, by
reason of having been placed in the
hands of a Receiver, or from any
other cause, ceased to have any prin-
cipal office at the time of the filing of
the Bill, then the Bill SHAH be filed in
a Court having jurisdiction within
tho limits of the County or the City of
Baltimore in which as the case may
be, the said Corporation had its last
principal place of business; and to
any such Bill stockholders residing
beyond the limits of the State OF
Maryland may become parties defend
ant, and upon so becoming parties,
shall not be proceeded against in any
other State or Territory or in the Dis
trict OF Columbia in respect of any
liability imposed by the said Section
S5L as said section stood before the
repeal thereof and which existed at
the time of the passage of the Act of
1904 hereinbefore referred to. This
Section shall become operative as of
January first, nineteen hundred and
three, and shall cause the abatement
of all actions at law which shall have
been brought against said stockhold-
ers since that date to enforce any LA
bility created by section S5L as said
section stood before the repeal there
of, and which existed at the time of
the passage of the Act of 1904 herein
before referred to; provided, however,
that as to any plaintiff or plaintiffs in
any of said abated suits who shall
within sixty days from the passage of
this Act, become party or parties to
a Bill in Equity of the character men
toned in this section, then as regards
the operation of the statute of Linn
itation upon the claims 80 sued on, the
time elapsed between the institution
of said abated suits and the time of
such plaintiff or plaintiffs becoming
a party or parties to said Bill in
Equity shall be excluded in ascertain
ing the period within which suits are
required to be brought by the said
statute of Limitations. The costs
taxable to any plaintiff or plaintiffs
in any action at law which shall be
abated under the provisions of this
section, the plaintiff or plaintiffs in
which action shall become a party or
parties to a Bill in Equity under the
provisions Of this Section shall be-
come n part OF the costs taxable in the
proceedings in said Equity case
Sec. And be it further enacted,
That this Act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.
Approved April II, 1904.
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STOCK OF ms. AND ACCT cos.
CHAPTER 251.

CHAPTER 25l.
AN ACT to repeal and reenact the
following with amendments: Section
8jM Of Article % Of the Code of
Public General Laws, title Corpora
tons" subtitle, General Regula-
TONS and to add an additional sec
ton to be designated as SoN prOWd-
ing for calling in and cancelling the
stock Of any such company.
Sec. BE it enacted by the General
Assembly Of Maryland, That Section
S5M Of Article % of the Code Of Pub
lie General Laws, title Corporations"
subtitle General Regulations" be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments so as to read
as follows. and an additional section
to be known as section 85N, shall be
added to said Article to follow section
SOM, 20 read as follows:
s5M-Every life insurance company
and accident insurance company incor-
pOratcd under the laws Of this state,
and every safe deposit, trust, guaranty,
loan and fidelity company or associa-
ton Incorporated under any law Of this
or any other State. district or territory
Of the United States or any foreign
country receiving money on deposit
or assuming any obligation in this
State, may, as the security on deposit
now or hereafter required by law to
be deposited with the Treasury OF
Maryland by laws, and especially by
sections S5E and 11G Of Article % Of
the Code Of Public General Laws.
title Corporations" transfer and as
sign 10 said Treasurer such first mort
% f,g al trfg IA ~
State as may be approved by the Board
Of Public Works. in lieu Of the kinds
Of securities now required by law 10
be deposited with said Treasurer; or
said companies may I'm lieu Of said Sc
curities transfer and assign to said
Treasurer bonds secured by first
mortgage on real estate situated in the
state Of Maryland and owned by the
company required by law 10 make such
deposit whenever such bonds may be
approved as security by the Board Of
Public Works II at any time the
Board Of Public Works shall find that
the bonds approved by them have eth
or fallen in value or have ceased 10 be
proper security TO be held by said
Treasurer. then the said Board shall
direct any company having any Of said
bonds on deposit with him as Sc
curity as aforesaid, 10 either deposit
an additional number Of bonds with
said Treasurer or 10 withdraw the said
bonds entirely and substitute bonds Of
a different kind in their place; II the
said company or companies owning
said bonds shall fail. within ten days
from the receipt Of a notice from the
Treasurer 10 that effect, 10 alter, In
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ms. DEPARTMENT STATEMENTS
CIIAPER 87G.
Approved April Z, 1904.

AN ACT to add new section TO Art
icle %, The Code Of Public General
Laws, title Corporation" sub
title insurance Department" 10 bO
known as section 1894 and to fol-
low section lz5.
Sec. BE It enacted by the Cen
eral Assembly Of Maryland that a
new section be added 10 Article 20 OF
the Code Of Public General Laws title
Corporations" subtitle Insurance
Department" to be known az Section
l35A and 10 follow section 1876 and 10
read as follows:
1884. The statement or statements
required 10 be made 10 tho Insurance
Commissioners under Sections 1856 OF
this Article may for the year ending
December Dist, 1903, DO transmitted
on or before July lst, 1904 In lieu Of
the time or times provided IN section
1876 Of this Article, ana the Insurance
Commissioners shall not be required
10 publish abstracts Of tho said state
mcut or statements as required by SOC
ton l3J Of this Article, nor bis annual
report 10 the Governor as he Is 70
quired by subsection 10 or Section
~ Of this Article until September lat,
1904.
Sec. 2.--And be H. enacted Z nat
this Act shall take effect from tho
date OF It's passage.
Approved April z. 1904
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LANDLORD AND TENANT.
CHAPTER 5G8.

AN ACT to repeal Section seventeen,
Article hfty-three, Of the Code of
Public General Laws. title Landlord
and Tenant. as repealed and re-en-
acted by the Act of eighteen hundred
and eighty, Chapter three hundred
and ten, eKempting certain Articles
from distress for rent. and to re-en-
act the same with amendments.
Section BE II enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly Of Maryland, That sec
ton seventeen Of Article fifty three, Of
the Code Of Public General Laws, title
Landlord and Tenant" ~ repealed
and re-enacted by the Act Of the GeDer-
al Assembly Of Maryland, passed at me
session Of eighteen hundred and eighty.
chapter three hundred and ten, be- and
the same is hereby repealed aud re-
enacted with amendments. 10 read as
follows;
1.-THE following property shall be
exempted from distress for rent, %
wit. Every spinning wheel, loom, Sow
ing machine, typewriter. stove. piano,
organ or other musical instrument,
rented, hired or loaned 10 the tenant,
and every horse, carriage, and harness,
whip and robe. saddle and bride. not
the property Of the tenant, IN any liy-
cry stable or which may be stored With
any keeper of any livery stable, or In
any other place, clubhouse barn Of the
tenant, and all property Of any bOardar
o. BoIourner at any hotel, tavern, pub
lie or private boarding house and any
vehicle not the property Of the tom
ant, In any shop for repairs.
Sec. 2.--And be II enacted, That this
Act shall take effect from the date Of
Us passage.
Approved April 8, 1904.
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EXEMPTION FROM EXECUTION

CHAPTER 381
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with
amendments Section eight OF Ar
ticle eighty-three of the Code of rub
lie General Laws, title Sales and
Notices" subtitle Exemption from
Execution"
Sec. BE it enacted by the Cen
eral Assembly of Maryland, That Sec
ton eight Of Article eighty-three Of
the Code Of Public General Laws,
title Sales and Notices." subtitle.
Exemption from Execution" be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments, so as to
read as follows;
s. One hundred $1,000 dollars in
property. whether the same consist
Of money, land or goods. Of every de-
PENDANT as well as all money payable
in the nature Of insurance, benefit or
relief in the contingency or event OF
sickness, accident, hurt or death Of
any person, shall be exempt from eX-
ecution or seizure n satisfaction Of
debt or claim upon any judgment in
any civil proceedings, except on jud6-
ments for breach Of promise 10 marry
and for seduction.
Sec 2.-And It be fupther enacted,
That this Act shall take effect from
the date of It's passage.
Approved April 7, 1904.
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PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS OF 1904.
Continued from page p

or ointments when plainly labeled, for
external use only and, provided fur
Their that the above provisions shall
not apply to sales at wholesale by
iobbers, wholesalers and manufactur-
ers to retail druggists, nor to sales at
retail by retail druggists to regular
practitioners of medicine dentistry or
veterinary medicine, nor to sales made
TO manufacturers of proprietary or
pharmaceutical preparations for use
in the manufacture of such prepara-
lions nor to sales to hospitals, col
leges. scientific or public Institutions,
and provided further that the proyis-
ions of this act shall not apply to the
sale or manufacture of any bona fide
patent or proprietary medicine.
Sec. 2-And be it further enacted,
That it shall be unlawful for any prac-
titioner of medicine, dentistry or vet
Urinary medicine to furnish to or to
prescribe for the use of any habitual
user of the same, any cocaine eucaine
or morphine or any salt or compound
of cocaine, eucalne or morphine, or any
preparation containing cocaiIe, eu
caine or morphine or their salts, and it
shall be unlawful for any practitioner
OF dentistry to prescribe any of the
foregoing substances for any person
not under his treatment in the regu-
lar line of his profession, or for any
practitioner of veterinary medicine to
prescribe any of the foregoing sub
stances for the use of any human be-
ing; provided, however. that the pro-
visions of this section shall not be con-
strued to prevent any lawfully author
ized practitioner of medicine from pre-
sCribing in good faith for the use of
any habitual user of narcotic drugs
such substances as he may deem nee
essary for the treatment of sucn hablt.
Sec. BE 1t further enacted, That
any person who shall knowingly vio-
late any of the provisions of this Act
shall be deemed guilty of misde-
meanor. and upon conviction for the
first ofrense shall be fined not less than
twenty-five C$25) dollars nor more than
fifty (Sj0 dollar and upon conviction
for a second ofc~se sNall be fined not
less tnan fifty (SJ.j dollars nor more
than one hundred (SlJ0) dollars, and
upon conviction for third offense and
all subsequent Offenses shall be fined
not less than one hundred ($lO0) dol
lars, nor more than two hundred dol
lars $4,000 and shall be i'm
prisoned in Jail for not more
than six months; it shall be
the duty of the Grand Jury to make
presentments for violations of tins
Act
Sec BE it further enacted, That
this Act shall take effect from the date
of its passage.
Approved April u. 1904
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some OF Our I1Ilns.. We. -
corn this week.
wheat Is generally looking badly in this
section.
rhere Is not Democrat in this section
VINO DID not Loyalty support Mr.. Bryan In
10th OF hfa -.
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by score OF v 70 ~. iutS 'sOso.y .------
the fourth one this season for the Academy
club, II having defeated the Gaithersburg
club ln three successive games.
The Academy club would like 70 arrange
games with any county team averaging
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THIS game wa ves,.--.---.
The 81. Johns College Mandolin and
Glee Club will accompany the team aud on
Thursday night will give an entertainment
at the Town Hall. half the proceeds OF which
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greatly Reduced Rates One Way.
During the months of March and April the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad will place on
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.ction.

W Of u |
III PAGE WOVEN WIRE FENCE CON
PANY, am prepared " furnsh this popn
lar Fencing ia any style and on reasonabl
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EOR SALE,
n TW0-ACRE LOT,
adjoining Harrison's grove, near Potomac, al
corner OF property Of John O. Stone. Terms
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- from $500 to $4,000 70 loan on farm
security 10 Montgomery county, Md.
FRANK HIGGINS,
Attorney -atLAw,
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MRS. HARRIET E. PRouT.

Mrs. Harriet E. Prout, aged seventy
 two, widow of George E. Prout, died at
 her home on the Short Beach road at
 S:S0 o'clock yesterday morning.
 Mrs. Prout was stricken with paraly-
 sis on Thursday morning and was found
 by her son, William A. Prout, lying near
 her bed unconscious. but failed rapidly
 until the end came.
 The deceased had been resident of
 Branford nearly all her life. She was , a member of Trinity Episcopal church, and regular attendant as long as health permitted. Some years ago she suffered a fractured shoulder by fall, and had not been able to be out very much since that time. She wes kind and loving wife and mothtr. always had something kind to say about everybody, and was very highly esteemed by all who knew her. Many of the home in Branford can at- test to the sweet qualities of the de- parted
 Mrs. Prout is survived by five children Mrs. Henry Leete of New Haven, Mrs. George Williams of Springfield, Captain Minott Prout, George S. and William A. Prout of Branford, and one sister, Mrs, James Spencer of Guilsord. Funeral arrangements have not vet been completed.