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Preamble.

BALTIMORE CITY.

TENANTS, HOLDING OVER.
A SUPPLEMENT (as concerns the City of Baltimore,) to the ACT, entitled,
an Act to provide a summary mode of recovering the possession of
Lands and Tenements, holden by Tenants, for years, or at will, after
the expiration of their terms. — 1831, ch 318.

WHEREAS, much difficulty and injury has arisen from the
long period of notice now required for the ending of tenancies,
from year to year, and for shorter periods ; and from the vexa-
tious withholding, by tenants, of the demised premises, availing
themselves of the defects of the act to which this is a supple-
ment, in reference to the means for the requisite proof, and to
the compliance with the terms and conditions prescribed by
that act, for the speedy and rightful recovery by landlords of the
possession of the premises ; therefore,

Term of
tenancy
eatabhshed.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, every tenancy, from
year to year, or from any lesser period, to such lesser period
now existing, or that shall hereafter exist, of any lands or tene-
ments within the city of Baltimore, shall, (unless it be other-
wise specially agreed) be deemed and taken to be determinate
at the election of the lessor or of the tenant at the end of the
year, or lesser period aforesaid, of the tenancy ; notice thirty
days, and in cases of tenancies from year to year, ninety days

Notice re-
quired for
quilting.

before such end, being first given by the lessor, to the said
tenant, to quit the premises, or thirty days notice by the tenant,
in either case to the lessor, of the said tenant's intention of quit-
ting the same.

Such notice
made legal.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said notice by said les-
sor, shall suffice to end such tenancy, and at the same time to
serve and avail as, and for, and instead of, to every intent, effect,
and purpose, a notice, such as is required by the act to which
this is a supplement, in order to the proceeding by said act, pro-
vided for recovering by the lessor the possession of the premises

Case spe-
cial agree-
ment.

demised or let ; and that where by special agreement as afore-
said, a longer or a shorter time of notice, for determination of
the said tenancy, shall be provided, such notice shall, in like
manner suffice as, and for, and instead of, and to dispense with,
any notice as required by the act aforesaid, in order to the pro-
ceeding aforesaid.

Legal ser-
vice of such
notice from
landlord.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That the notice aforesaid to quit,
shall be deemed to be due and proper, and duly served, if it be
signed by the said lessor, or by any one as in his behalf, and
left at the dwelling-house or place of business of said tenant,
with any person of the family of, or in the service or employ of
said tenant, or if left with any person occupying, or inhabiting,
or using the demised or let lands or tenements, or if said tenant
have no dwelling-house or place of business as aforesaid, in the