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titled Landlord and Tenant, be repealed and re-en- acted so as to read as follows
17. The following property shall be exempt from distress for rent, to wit: Every spinning wheel, loom or sewing machine, which may be loaned or hired to the tenant; and every horse, carriage, and harness, whip and robe, in any liv- ery stable, or which may be at livery or stored with any keeper of any livery stable, or in any other place, outhouse or barn of the tenant, and all property of any boarder or sojourner at any hotel, tavern, public or private boarding house, and any vehicle riot the property of the tenant, in any shop for repairs, every stove, every piano or other musical instrument, rented or hired or loaned to the tenant, where the contract of rent- ing or hiring or lending is in writing, signed by the parties thereto, and acknowledged before a Jus- tice of the Peace of the county or city wherein the parties reside, and the Justice shall enter upon his docket the substance of the contract, and that the parties acknowledge the same.	Exempt from distraint.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the day of its passage. Approved March 20, 1868.	In force.
CHAPTER 174. AN ACT to declare the sanction of the General Assembly of Maryland to the bequest of Cathe- rine Morton, late of Calvert County, deceased, to the Vestry of St. Paul's Parish in said county.
WHEREAS, Catherine Morton, late of Calvert County, deceased, by her last Will and Testament duly admitted to probate and recorded in the office of Register of Wills for said county, bequeathed the sum of five hundred dollars to the Vestry of St. Paul's Parish in said county and their succes-	Preamble.