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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

nation to increase the capital of said corporation a cer-
tificate thereof, showing the amount and number of shares so
issued and the price at which the same have been sold shall
be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of
Baltimore City, to be recorded therein , verified by the oath
of the president of said body corporate and attested by its
corporate seal.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said body cor-
porate be and is hereby empowered and authorized to issue
perpetual policies against loss or damage to property by fire
or lightning.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 29, 1900.

CHAPTER 135.
AN ACT to repeal Section seventeen, of Article 45, of the
Maryland Code of Public General Laws, title "Husband and
Wife," as repealed and re-enated by the Acts of eighteen
hundred and ninety-eight, Chapter four hundred and fifty-.
seven, and re-enact the same with amendments.

Husband and
wife.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section seventeen, of Article 45, of the Maryland
Code of Public General Laws, title "Husband and Wife," as
repealed and re-enacted by the Act of eighteen hundred and
ninety-eight, Chapter four hundred and fifty -seven, be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as
follows, viz.:

Lawful for
Landlord to
distrain for
rent.

Sec. 17. In all cases where leases for a definite term, or for a
term of years, renewable forever, have been or may hereafter
be made to a married woman, and the rent therein 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 a feme sole ; and in case of no 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 feme sole, and had cove-
nanted for the payment of said rents, and to suffer such re-entry
to be made.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved March 29, 1900.