THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 355

CHAPTER 199. AN ACT to repeal Section Thirty, Article Forty- seven, of the Code of Public General Laws, and to re-enact the same with amendments.
SECTION 1. Se it enacted ly the General Assembly of Maryland, That Section Thirty of Article For- ty-seven of the Code of Public General Laws be, and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted as follows :	Repealed and re-enacted.
Sec. 30. The illegitimate child or Children of any female, and the issue of any such illegiti- mate child or children shall be able and capable in law to take and inherit both real and personal estate from their mother, or from each other, or from the descendants of each other, as the case may be, and where such illegitimate child or chil- dren shall die, leaving no descendants, or brothers or sisters, or the descendants of such brothers and sisters, then and in that case, the mother of such illegimate child or children, if living, shall in- herit both real and personal estate from such ille- gitimate child or children, and if the mother be dead, then and in that case, the heirs at law of the mother shall inherit the real and personal estate of such illegitimate child or children in like man- ner as if such illegimate child or children had been in lawful wedlock.	Illigitmate child to in- herit.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved March 28, 1868,	In force.