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Lily, in amending any article or section of the Code of Laws of this
State, to enact the same as the said article or section would read when
amended. And whenever the General Assembly shall enact any Public
General Law, not amendatory of any section or article in the said Code,
it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to enact the same, in articles
and sections, in the same manner as the Code is arranged, and to pro-
vide for the publication of all additions and alterations which may be
made to the said Code.

Titles held sufficient:

Acts relating to corporations.

The title of the act of 1900, chapter 307, changing the name of the
Potomac and Severn Electric Railway Company, granting certain addi-
tional powers thereto and confirming certain franchises thereof, held suffi-
cient. Oases involving an alleged violation of the portion of this section
relative to the title of an act, reviewed and summarized. Jeffers v. Annap-
olis, 107 Md. 268.

The title of the act of 1892, chapter 469. amending the charter of the
Writing Telegraph Company of Baltimore City, held sufficient. Brown v.
Md. Telephone Co., 101 Md. 579.

The title of the act of 1890, chapter 263. changing the name of the
Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland and amending and defining its
powers, held sufficient. Gang v. Carter, 77 Md. 10.

The title of the act of 1898, chapter 17, changing the name of the Shep-
pard Asylum, held sufficient. Strictly speaking, the preamble is no part of
the statute; hence, even if the preamble should be out of harmony with
the body of the act, the title is not thereby rendered defective. Phinney v.
Sheppard Hospital, 89 Md. 635.

The title of the act of 1874, chapter 233, which is "An Act to Establish
The Maryland House of Correction," held sufficient, since this section is .
liberally construed. The title need not set out the details contained in the
sections of the act. Moreover, the sections of the act of 1874 were adopted
and confirmed by the act adopting the code of 1S88. Bond v. State, 78
Md. 525.

The clauses in the act of 1880, chapters 431 and 432, making appropria-
tions to the Maryland Agricultural College, held not to be so foreign to the
subject of the acts as to violate the provision of this section dealing with
the title of an act Maryland Agricultural College v. Keating, 58 Md. 583.

Acts relating to municipalities.

Ordinance No. 692 of the mayor and city council of Baltimore, provid-
ing for the segregation of white and colored people, held not to violate
section 221 of the Baltimore City charter, which is an adaptation of this
section. State v. Gurry, 121 Md. 539.

The title of the act of 1904, chapter 274, authorizing Baltimore City to
issue stock to raise money for the condemning, opening, etc., of streets in
the Annex, authorizing the appointment of an "Annex improvement com-
mission" and defining the duties thereof, held sufficient. Cases involving
the portion of this section dealing with the title of an act, reviewed and
summarized. Baltimore v. Flack, 104 Md. 114.

The title of the act of 1886, chapter 280, giving authority to the city of
Baltimore to open streets through a cemetery, held sufficient, although the
act made provision for the removal of bodies from certain parts of the
cemetery and for the sale of the land from which bodies were removed.
Catholic Cathedral v. Manning. 72 Md. 133.

The title of the act of 1867, chapter 240, which is "An Act to Amend
and Alter the Charter of the City of Annapolis," held sufficient; the sub-
ject-matter of the legislation was the charter of a municipal corporation
embracing its powers, rights and duties. Annapolis v. State. 30 Md. 118.

The title of the act of 1870, chapter 260, incorporating the town of
Laurel, held sufficient. Prince Georges County v. Laurel, 51 Md. 460.