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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

so decreed by the Orphans' Court within thirty days from the

The court's
order in the

time of such decree, the court shall order and direct the exe-

premises to

cutor or administrator to sell all the right, title and interest of

the executor
or administra-

such party in and to said estate or property, or so much

tor.

thereof as the court may deem necessary, to pay his proportion

of said tax and all expenses of sale ; provided, however, that

nothing in this section contained' shall be construed to confer

authority on the Orphans' Court to order the sale for the satis-

faction of Collateral Inheritance Tax of any life interest after

the expiration of four years from the date of the death of

the decedent, who shall have died seized and possessed of the

property, or of any remainder or revisionary interest after the

expiration of four years from the date at which such interest

shall vest in possession.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall be retroactive

in its operation and shall take effect from the date of its

passage.

Approved April I, 1904.

CHAPTER 223.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Chapter 195 of the

Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1896, entitled

"An Act to enable the legal voters of Wicomico County,

or any election district or town or city of said county,

to determine, by election, whether or not fermented, spir-

ituous or intoxicating liquors shall be sold in the said

county or in any election district, town or city of said

county," and to enact six sections in lieu thereof, to be known

as Sections lA, 2, 3, 4, 4A and 46 to provide for a special

election to determine said question in Salisbury Election

District No. 9 and Delmar Election District No. n of said

county, and to add an additional section to be called Sec-

tion 18, prohibiting the sale of liquor in certain other dis-

tricts of said county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Legal voters

land, That Sections i, 2, 3 and 4 of Chapter 195 of the Acts

in Wicomico
County to de-

of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1896, entitled "An

termine the
sale of liquor
therein.

Act to enable the legal voters of Wicomico County, or any
election district or town or city of said county, to determine,

by election, whether or not fermented, spirituous or intox-