JAS. BLACK GROOME, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the Comptroller of

How used

the Treasury, is hereby directed to issue his warrant
upon the certificate of the President and Secretary

of the Electoral College, which assembled in the

City of Annapolis, on the fourth day of December,

eighteen hundred and seventy-two, for such sums as

may be due the several electors aforesaid, their

officers and attendants.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

In force

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved, March 10th, 1874.

CHAPTER 57.*

AN ACT to repeal section one, of article forty-five,

of the code of Public General Laws, entitled,

"husband and wife," and to re-enact the same

with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Repealed and

Maryland, That section one, of article forty-live, of

re-enacted

the code of Public General Laws, entitled, " husband

and wife," be, and the same is hereby repealed and

re-enacted so as to read as follows :

1. The property, real and personal, belonging
to a woman at the time of her marriage, and all prop-

Property of
married women

erty which she may acquire or receive after her mar-

riage by purchase, gift, grant, devise, bequest, descent,
or in a course of distribution, shall be protected from

the debts of the husband, and not in any way liable

for the payment thereof; provided, that no acquisition

Proviso

of property passing to the wife from the husband

after coverture shall be valid if the same has been

made or granted to her in prejudice of the rights

of his subsisting creditors.

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

effect from the date of its passage.