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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

dred and forty-five, chapter three hundred and ten,.

the Maryland Tract Society was incorporated with a

provision that the said act should inure for thirty

years from the date of its passage, and it is therefore

necessary that the corporate franchises, granted by

the said act, should be renewed and extended in order

to promote and continue the beneficent purposes of

said corporation ; therefore —

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Renewed and
extended

Maryland, That the corporate franchises granted by

the said act of Assembly, entitled " an act to incor-

porate the Maryland Tract Society," passed at De-

cember session, eighteen hundred and forty-five,.

chapter three hundred and ten, be and the same are

hereby renewed and extended without any limitation

as to the duration of said corporation ; provided, how-

ever, that the said General Assembly reserves to itself

the right at any time to amend, alter or repeal thia

act.

In force

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

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11th, 1874.

CHAPTER 250.

AN ACT to prevent the carrying of guns, pistols,

dirks, dirk-knives, razors, billies or bludgeons, by

any person in Kent, Queen Anne's or Montgomery

counties, on the day of election in said counties.

Not lawful to

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

cary

Maryland, That from and after the passage of this

act, it shall not be lawful for any person in Kent,

Queen Anne's or Montgomery counties, to carry, on

the days of election, secretly or otherwise, any gun,

pistol, dirk, dirk-knife, razor, billy or bludgeon ; and

any person violating the provisions of this act shall

be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on con-

viction thereof, before any justice of the peace in either