ART. 80] CRIMINAL CODE. 1787

appeals, or a majority of them, shall approve the said criminal code,
they, or a majority of said commission, shall certify in writing that
they have examined and do approve and determine the same to be com-
plete and correct, then the said code shall, by said commission to revise
the criminal law, be submitted to the next general assembly of the State
for such action thereon as it shall deem proper, looking to its being
adopted and published as the criminal code in force in the State of
Maryland.

1910, ch. 345, sec. 2 (p. 218).

11. If said criminal code shall be approved by said commission
appointed by the court of appeals, then the said state reporter and codi-
fier, in preparing the code of public general laws which he is directed
to prepare after the session of the general assembly of 1910, shall omit
therefrom such articles, sections and parts of articles and sections, as
relate exclusively to crimes and punishments, and which are embraced
in the said criminal code, so far as the same may properly be omitted
from the code of public general laws relating to other subjects; and the
code so to be published by the state reporter and codifier shall be styled
"Code of Public Civil Laws of the State of Maryland."