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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

der Hardcastle, J. Allen Moore, Thomas H. Jarman, Joseph

B. Orrell and John T. Dawson, Trustees, or a majority of them,

are hereby authorized and empowered to sell the Oakland

Camp-ground, situated in the Seventh Election District of

Caroline County and State of Maryland, either at public or pri-

vate sale, as they or a majority of them shall think best, and to

pay the proceeds of said sale over to the treasurer of the

building committee of said Greensboro Methodist Episcopal

Church to be used in the erection and completion of a new

church building now being erected in said town of Greens-

boro, Maryland.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved March 9, 1904.

CHAPTER 44.

AN ACT to amend Article 27 of the Code of Public General

Laws, title "Crimes and Punishments, " by repealing Sec-

tion 47A, as enacted by Chapter 73 of the Acts of 1896, and

re-enacting the same with amendments under the sub-title

"Desertion of Wife or Child. " and by adding thereto an

additional section, to follow immediately after Section 47A,

and to be known as Section 47B.

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

land, That Article 27 of the Code of Public General Laws,

Desertion of

title "Crimes and Punishments, " be and the same is hereby

wife or child.

amended by repealing Section 47A, as enacted by Chapter 73

of the Acts of 1896, and re-enacting the same with amend-

ments, under the sub-title "Desertion of Wife or Child, " and

by adding thereto an additional section, to follow immediately

after Section 47A. and to be known as Section 47B.

47A. Any person who shall without just cause desert or

wilfully neglect to provide for the support and maintenance

Punishment
for neglect-

of his wife or minor child, shall be deemed guilty of a mis-

ing to sup-

demeanor, and upon conviction in any court of the State hav-

port wife or
minor child.

ing criminal jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not

exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the Mary-

land House of Correction, for not more than one year, or both,

in the discretion of the court. The fine may be directed by the

court to be paid in whole or in part to the wife. Provided,