1302 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 779]

it shall be sufficient that a bond has been accepted and filed in
the county in which the deed has been recorded; provided,
nevertheless, that this section shall neither apply to, nor include,
any deed of trust by which land is conveyed to a trustee or
trustees to sell, in whole or in part or parts, for the benefit
either of the grantor or grantors in the said deed of trust or of
the person or persons who have contributed or paid the con-
sideration, other than love and affection, of the said deed of
trust and is or are entitled thereunder to the proceeds of sale
or sales made thereunder.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1912.

CHAPTER 779.

AN ACT to provide for the appointment by the Governor of this
State of a commission of six persons to revise the revenue
and tax laws and the taxation system of the State of Mary-
land and the City of Baltimore, and to prepare a general
system of taxation for the State of Maryland and the City of
Baltimore, and providing a fund to defray the expenses
thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That within sixty days after the passage of this act the
Governor shall appoint a commission consisting of six mem-
bers, who are hereby constituted a Board of Commissioners
under the name and style of Commission for the Revision of
the Taxation System of the State of Maryland and City of
Baltimore, whose duty it shall be to carefully review the
revenue and tax laws, and the taxation system of the State of
Maryland and the City of Baltimore, including all laws, acts
and ordinances relating to the levy, assessment and collection
of taxes and every form of public revenue in the State of
Maryland and the City of Baltimore, and to prepare and report
in printed form by October 15, 1913, to the Secretary of State,
for transmission; the General Assembly of Maryland at the
next session thereof (or earlier as hereinafter provided), the
draft of a general system of law, providing for the revision of
the revenue and tax laws and the taxation system of the State
of Maryland and City of Baltimore, and embodying all provi-
sions proper for a complete system of taxation for the State of
Maryland and the City of Baltimore.