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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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der Hardcastle, J. Allen Moore, Thomas H. Jarman, Joseph
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B. Orrell and John T. Dawson, Trustees, or a majority of them,
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are hereby authorized and empowered to sell the Oakland
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Camp-ground, situated in the Seventh Election District of
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Caroline County and State of Maryland, either at public or pri-
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vate sale, as they or a majority of them shall think best, and to
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pay the proceeds of said sale over to the treasurer of the
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building committee of said Greensboro Methodist Episcopal
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Church to be used in the erection and completion of a new
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church building now being erected in said town of Greens-
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boro, Maryland.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
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from the date of its passage.
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Approved March 9, 1904.
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CHAPTER 44.
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AN ACT to amend Article 27 of the Code of Public General
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Laws, title "Crimes and Punishments, " by repealing Sec-
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tion 47A, as enacted by Chapter 73 of the Acts of 1896, and
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re-enacting the same with amendments under the sub-title
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"Desertion of Wife or Child. " and by adding thereto an
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additional section, to follow immediately after Section 47A,
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and to be known as Section 47B.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
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land, That Article 27 of the Code of Public General Laws,
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Desertion of
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title "Crimes and Punishments, " be and the same is hereby
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wife or child.
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amended by repealing Section 47A, as enacted by Chapter 73
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of the Acts of 1896, and re-enacting the same with amend-
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ments, under the sub-title "Desertion of Wife or Child, " and
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by adding thereto an additional section, to follow immediately
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after Section 47A. and to be known as Section 47B.
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47A. Any person who shall without just cause desert or
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wilfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance
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Punishment
for neglect-
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of his wife or minor child, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
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ing to sup-
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demeanor, and upon conviction in any court of the State hav-
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port wife or
minor child.
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ing criminal jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not
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exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the Mary-
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land House of Correction, for not more than one year, or both,
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in the discretion of the court. The fine may be directed by the
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court to be paid in whole or in part to the wife. Provided,
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