PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1545

cipal of such portion as may mature in each year after the date
of their issue as now levied.

VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

1896, ch. 59, sec. 1.

634. That Chapter 273 of the Acts of 1894, be and the
same is hereby repealed so far as the same applies to Mont-
gomery county, said act being entitled an act to regulate the
practice of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery in the State of
Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the owners of lands

called for in describing the boundaries of the several munic-
ipal corporations mentioned in this act shall be construed to
refer to the persons who owned the lands when the original

charters of the municipal corporations were granted, or in the

cases where the boundaries have been changed by amendments
to the charters, to the time such amendments were passed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not
affect or impair any right vested or acquired and existing at
the time of the passage of said act; provided that this section
shall not be construed to make irrepealable or irrevocable any
right which before the passage of this act was repealable or
revocable; nor shall this act impair, discharge or release any
contract, obligation, duty, liability or penalty whatever now
existing. All suits and actions, both civil and criminal, pend-
ing or which may hereafter be instituted for causes of action
now existing or offenses already committed against any law
or regulation repealed by this act, shall be instituted, pro-
ceeded with and prosecuted to final determination and judg-
ment as if this act had not been passed.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts
of laws now in force relating or applicable to Montgomery
county, and not included in this act, and not inconsistent with
this act, and all rules and regulations of the County Commis-
sioners of Montgomery County, heretofore passed in any law-
ful capacity, and not inconsistent with this act, shall be and
they are hereby continued until changed or repealed, respec-
tively, by the General Assembly of Maryland or said county
commissioners acting as aforesaid in any lawful capacity; pro-
vided, that all acts or parts of acts passed at the session of
the General Assembly of Maryland in the year nineteen hun-
dred and twelve, relating to Montgomery county, or in any
manner amending or adding to article 16 of the Public Local
Laws, as said article existed before the passage of this act,