EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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missioners hereby appointed to contract for and superintend

the building of same, shall make a full and explicit statement,

Commissioners
to make oath

under oath, of the costs of building and furnishing the said

of cost build-
ing and fur-

court house and of their actual personal expense in and about

nishings.

same, the names of every person to whom money was paid, for

what paid, and the amount thereof to be filed with the County

Commissioners, and the said County Commissioners shall pub-

lish said statement for three successive weeks in two news-

papers published in Somerset County of opposite political

views, if there be two newspapers of opposite political views

published in said county, otherwise in any two such news-

papers as the said County Commissioners may direct.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 15, 1904.

CHAPTER 76.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with an amendment Section

16 of Article 27 of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled

"Crimes and Punishments," sub-title "Assault with Intent

to Murder, Ravish or Rob."

SECTION r. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

land, That Section 16 of Article 27 of the Code of Public Gen-

eral Laws, title "Crimes and Punishments," sub-title "Assault

with Intent to Murder, Ravish or Rob," be and the same is

hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read :

16. Every person convicted of the crime of an assault with

intent to rob, murder, commit a rape or have carnal knowledge
of female child under the age of fourteen years, shall be sen-

Penalty for
committing
crime.

tenced to confinement in the penitentiary for not less than two

years nor more than ten years.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That nothing herein contained

shall be construed to exempt from punishment any person

This Act not
to interfere

now under indictment for the perpetration of any of the

with indicted

offenses hereinbefore named at the time of the passage of this

person.

Act, upon conviction thereof in any of the courts of the State ;

but all such persons shall be liable upon conviction to punish-

ment in accordance with the provisions of law in force prior

to the passage hereof.

Approved March 18, 1904.