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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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

Institution of

land, That Chapter 298, passed at the January Session of the

suits.

General Assembly in the year of 1892, and entitled "An Act

to regulate the institution of suits before justices of the peace

in Kent Count," be and the same is hereby repealed.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.

CHAPTER 568.

AN ACT to repeal Section 17, Article 53, of the Code of Pub-

lic General Laws, title ''Landlord and Tenant," as repealed

and re-enacted by the Act of 1880, Chapter 310, exempting

certain articles from distress for rent, and to re-enact the

same with amendments.

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

landlord and

land, That Section 17 of Article 53 of the Code of Public

tenant.

General Laws, title "Landlord and Tenant," as repealed and

re-enacted by the Act of the General Assembly of Maryland,

passed at the Session of 1880, Chapter 310, be and the same

is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments to read

as follows :

17. The following property shall be exempt from distress

Exemptions

for rent, to wit : Every spinning wheel, loom, sewing ma-

from distress
from rent.

chine, typewriter, stove, piano, organ or other musical instru-

ment rented, hired or loaned to the tenant ; and every horse,

carriage and harness, whip and robe, saddle and bridle, not

the property of the tenant, in any livery stable, or which may

be stored with any keeper of any livery stable, or in any other

place, outhouse or barn of the tenant ; and all property of any

boarder or sojourner at any hotel, tavern, public or private

boarding house ; and any vehicle not the property of the tenant

in any shop for repair.

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

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1904.