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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Laws, entitled Landlord and Tenant, be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted as follows:

Renting land
on shares.

22. In all cases of renting lands wherein a share
of the growing crop or crops shall be reserved as
rent, or wherein advances by the landlord have
been made upon the faith of the crops to be grown,
said rent reserved and such advances made shall
be a lien on such crop or crops, which shall not be
diverted by any sale made thereof by the tenant
or by any administrator of a deceased tenant, or
by the assignment of the tenant in bankruptcy or
insolvency, or by the process of law issued against
the tenant;provided, that at the time of said

Must be re-
duced to writ-
ing.

renting the contract under and by which the said
advances are to be made shall be reduced to
writing, duly attested and executed by the said
landlord and tenant.

Not to apply.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the provisions of
this Act shall only apply to the counties of St.
Mary's, Prince George and Charles.

In force.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That this- Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 4, 1870.

CHAPTER 280.

AN ACT appropriating a sum of money to enable
the Directors of the Maryland Institution for the
the Instruction of the Blind to pay off an indebt-
edness existing against that Institution.

Appropriation

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, That for the purpose of enabling
the Directors of the Maryland Institution for the
Instruction of the Blind to cancel an indebtedness
now existing against said Institution, the Trea-
surer of the State upon a warrant of the Comptrol-
ler, shall pay to the Treasurer of the Maryland
Institution for the Instruction of the Blind for the
year eighteen hundred and seventy, the sum of
ten thousand dollars, and the said sum of ten thou-
sand dollars is hereby appropriated for that pur-