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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 393.
AN ACT to repeal Section four of Article 66 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Mortgages," and
to re-enact the same with amendments.

Mortgages.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section four of Article 66 of the Code of Public
General Laws, title "Mortgages," be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, so as to read as
follows :

Shall be
preferred to
previous
judgments, etc.

Sec. 4. Whenever lands or chattels real are sold and con-
veyed, and a mortgage is given by the purchaser at the same
time to secure the payment of the purchase money, in whole
or in part, such mortgage shall be preferred to any previous
judgment or decree for the payment of money which may
have been obtained against such purchaser, whether the
mortgage is given to the vendor of the property so purchased
or to a third party who advances the purchase money in whole
or in part; provided, such mortgage recite that the sum so
secured is in whole or part the purchase money of the prop-
erty purchased; provided, however, that nothing in this Act
contained shall be held or construed to affect existing right.

Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 394.
AN ACT to add a new section to Article 22 of the Code of
Public Local Laws, title "Washington County," sub-title
"Hagerstown," to be known as Section 171 A.

Hagerstown.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Article 22 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title
"Washington County," sub-title "Hagerstown," be amended
by the addition of a new section, to be known as Section
171 A, and to read as follows:

License on
telegraph
companies.

171 A. The Mayor and Council shall have power to impose
a license on telegraph companies doing business in the town of
Hagerstown; provided that no greater sum than one hundred
dollars be charged for any one license.

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

Approved April 7, 1900.