of persons erroneously supposed to be dead, such person may be substituted a plaintiff in all actions by the executor or administrator.

Chapter 141 provide for appointment of State Roads Commission and contains new and important legislation.

Chapter 480 repeals section I of Article 91 of Code, and provides for the duties of the surveyors in the counties and the city of Baltimore.

Chapter 704 repeals and re-enacts sections 18, 19, 20 and 21 of Article 83 and new sections in place thereof in reference to sales in bulk, and makes considerable change in the law.

Chapter 564 repeals the tax on mortgages as to Garrett County, and does not affect Worcester, Wicomico, Somerset, Carroll, Howard, Montgomery, Frederick and Dorchester Counties.

Chapter 283 is a new act in reference to tax on mortgages in Worcester, Wicomico, Somerset, Carroll, Howard, Montgomery, Frederick, Dorchester and Garrett Counties.

Chapter 552 adds a new section, 166-A, to Article 81, defining the terms, Gross Receipts, Gross Receipts or Earnings, Total Receipts or Revenues, Gross Receipts or Revenues, Gross Receipts and Revenues; and that they shall not include any income derived from investment of capital or surplus and includes only the difference between gross receipts, earnings or revenues derived from the use of deposit moneys and the interest paid on such deposits.

Chapter 124 repeals section 160 of Article 81 of Code, and re-enacts providing that any corporation owning as investment any part of its capital, surplus, stock debt of State or city of Baltimore shall not be allowed a credit if there is failure to state in the return that the investments are owned by the corporation and not held as security for loan or collateral, etc.

Chapter 695 repeals sections 117 and 140 of Article 81 of the Code and provides for collateral inheritance tax of 5%.

Chapter 269 adds sections 7 and 8 to Article 78 and provides that the Governor forward to the public printer copies of bills passed by the General Assembly certified under the great seal and before delivering the same to the public printer to cause the certified copies to be compiled and classified by. some competent person into three classes, to be known as Public General Laws, Public Local Laws and Private Acts, and under this act the Laws of 1908 will be printed.

Chapter 541 adds a new section to Article 75 to be known as section 102-A, in reference to right of removal of cases provided for in section 102 and the further right is given upon suggestion in writing under oath of either of the parties in said proceedings or their respective attorneys, that such party cannot have a fair and impartial trial the record shall be transmitted to some court adjoining the judicial circuit of which the court in said action is pending is a part.

Chapter 487 defines the jurisdiction of counties and provides for supplying maps showing the same to officials in said counties.

Chapter 417 adds a new section to Article 71, to be known as section 102-A, and provides where suggestion for removal is filed the clerk of court in which suggestion is filed shall notify counsel, as soon as record is made up for transmission and no cause so removed shall stand for trial unless the record shall show that there has been opportunity to inspect the same or inspection has been waived. This act does not apply to Baltimore City.

Chapter 103 repeals and re-enacts the militia acts.

Chapter 365 is an act to protect the health of domestic animals of the State.

Chapter 93 repeals section 17 of Article 53, entitled Landlord and Tenant, and enumerates the property exempt from distress for rent, adding some exceptions.

Chapter 477 changes the jury law so that the court can recall the Grand Jury and Petty Jury in its discretion to return to the court at such time as the court may direct when

any event happens before or after final discharge that the court shall deem of sufficient importance to be investigated by the Grand Jury and tried by the Petty Jury and if twelve grand jurors be present and concurring they shall have the powers of the Grand Jury constituted for the term.

Chapter 120 repeals section 101 of Article 43 and regulates the practice of medicine and states who shall be regarded as practitioners of medicine in the meaning of the act. This act was passed to prevent any person who for hire will undertake to treat, heal, cure, drive away or remove any physical or mental ailment or supposed ailment of another by any process exercised on the part of either the healer or patient. It does not apply to gratuitous services. This is known as the Anti-Christian Science Act.

Chapter 626 repeals section 18 of Article 42, entitled habeas corpus and provides for committing minors to institutions and defines when a minor is deemed to be without proper care and guardianship and the act enacts, "a minor under or apparently under the age of 16 years who may be found habitually walking aimlessly along or being on any street or highway at any unreasonable hour of the night or early morning or who is found loitering around any theatre or other place of amusement at any unreasonable hour without good reason for doing so," is to be committed.

Chapter 486 appoints a commission to revise the laws of the State relating to desertion and non-support of wives and children.

Chapter 407 continues in force the commission uniformity of legislation in the United States.

Chapter 140 provides for one-half fines imposed and recognized forfeited to be paid to support the law libraries throughout the State, but in Baltimore City not more than $2,500 is to be used in this manner in any one year. act does not apply to several of the counties.

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Chapter 400 provides primary elections for U. S. Senators. Chapter 122 is the Corrupt Practices Act.

Chapter 737 provides for the form and arrangement of ballots, and for the primary elections throughout the State. Chapter 576 provides for the manner of counting ballots. In this act it is provided that no ballot shall be rejected solely because any part or portion of the cross mark extends beyond the square, if the point of intersection of the cross is within the square.

Chapter 265 provides for parties not wishing to lose their right to vote making the necessary affidavit to prevent loss of citizenship.

Chapter 597 is the free lunch bill and forbids offering directly or indirectly any one visiting a place where liquors are sold any viands, food or lunch, but does not prohibit placing pretzels, cheese or crackers on the counters of licensed saloons, without cost to patrons.

Chapter 517 prevents any person a member of the board of visitors of a public institution supported in whole or in part by the State appropriations from being interested directly or indirectly in any contract with said instituton.

Chapter 284 provides that electric railways shall designate separate seats for white and colored passengers on all cars running 20 miles beyond the limits of an incorporated city.

Chapter 408 provides where crimes are committed at or near a boundary line which is uncertain, the offender shall be punished in the county which assumes jurisdiction.

Chapter 115 provides that persons convicted of murder in the first degree, aiders, abettors and counselors shall suffer death or be confined in the penitentiary for life in the discretion of the court.

Chapter 319 repeals section 119 of Article 27 of Code in reference to freight, warehouse, storage and elevator receipts, and makes changes in the present law.

Chapter 45 defines as burglary any person who enters day or night a building whether inhabited or not and attempts to open any vault, safe or other secure place by use of explosives.

Chapter 413 adds an additional section to Article 27, to be known as section 17-A, and defines and punishes barratry. The act says whoever being an attorney-at-law directly or indirectly agrees to procure another to be employed as an expert witness or otherwise or procure another to be so employed in consideration of his soliciting litigious business, or undertakes and solicits or in any way compensates or agrees to compensate for so doing, shall upon the conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment or both and that any solicitation as aforesaid shall be prima facie evidence of the person so soliciting is doing so for gain.

Chapter 510 provides that the premiums paid for surety bonds or renewals in any action at law or in equity shall be taxed as part of the costs.

Chapter 309 provides that foreign corporations transacting business in this State deemed to exercise franchises within the State can be sued in any courts of the State.

Chapter 457 provides for the duty of turnpike companies to keep the roads in repair and the manner in which they can be proceeded against when not in repair.

Chapter 280 provides that telegraph companies shall show conspicuously on each telegram the time filed for transmission and time received at destination.

Chapter 661 provides that when a court of equity passes a decree for payment of costs or other payment of money against the plaintiff the clerk shall index the name of the plaintiff and no lien shall arise against the real or leasehold property of such plaintiff and no right of execution shall accrue until the name of such plaintiff is so indexed.

Chapter 69 provides that nothing in sections 200 A, B, C and D, of Article 16 (Chapter 73, Acts of 1896) shall affect the rights of any person entitled to property in the hands of a trustee, executor or administrator or other fiduciary prior to April 3, 1906, who shall prior to that date have filed any