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tain age except under certain circumstances, does not render the law invalid; nor is
an act invalid because the repeal of another act with a defective title is provided
for in its title; nor because the act excepts certain counties while its title indicates
that it applies to the whole state. The title of the act of 1902, ch. 566, regulating the
employment of children, held sufficient. Mt. Vernon Co. v. Frankfort Co., 111 Md.
561.

Where the title of an act sufficiently describes its subject but concludes with an
additional description which correctly applies to only a portion of the act, the title
is sufficient. The title of the act of 1908, ch. 635, amending the law relative to
" Public Education," held sufficient. Worcester County v. School Commissioners,
113 Md. 305.

Title of the act of 1912, ch. 117, providing a new method of condemnation, held
sufficient. Ridgely v. Baltimore, 119 Md. 572.

Title of the act of 1894, ch. 380, repealing art. 72 of the Code, title " Oysters,"
and re-enacting the same with amendments, held sufficient. State v. Applegarth,
81 Md. 303.

Title of the act of 1874, ch. 221, repealing and re-enacting a prior act so that
oysters sold in the shell at packing establishments should be measured in an iron
measure, held sufficient. McGrath v. State, 46 Md. 633.

A law requiring vendors of beer manufactured by themselves to take out licenses,
may be validly enacted under the title " An Act to Raise Additional Revenue to
Pay the Debts of the State by Increasing the Rates of Licenses to Ordinary Keepers
and Traders." Keller v. State, 11 Md. 531.

Title of the act of 1878, ch. 159, which was in substance as follows: "To Repeal
Ch. 220 of the Act of 1876, Entitled An Act to Establish a Bridge Over the
Patapsco Near the Light Street Bridge, and to Enact the Following in Lieu Thereof,"
held sufficient. Baltimore v. Stoll, 52 Md. 438. And see Talbot County v. Queen
Anne's County, 50 Md. 255; Dorchester County v. Meekins, 50 Md. 28; Montague v.
State, 54 Md. 487.

Title of the act of 1854, ch. 325, " An Act Relating to the Trial of Facts in the
Several Circuit Courts of This State," held sufficient, although the law embraced the
courts of Baltimore city. Wright v. Hamner, 5 Md. 375.

Title of the act of 1894, ch. 247, providing for the treatment and cure of habitual
drunkards, held sufficient, and not to embrace more than one subject. Baltimore v.
Keeley Institute, 81 Md. 117.

Title of the act of 1852, ch. 120, providing for the infliction of corporal punishment
in " wife-beating " cases, held sufficient. Foote v. State, 59 Md. 270.

Titles held defective:

Acts relating to corporations.

Title of the act of 1890, ch. 536, adding a new section to art. 81 of the Code, pro-
viding for the payment by every newly incorporated company of a bonus on its
capital stock, held insufficient in so far as it imposed a tax on the increase of the
capital stock of corporations existing prior to January 1, 1890. State v. Schultz Co
83 Md. 60.

Title of the act of 1898, ch. 493, was (in substance) that railroad and mining
corporations should be prohibited from selling in Allegany county to their em-
ployees; the law itself prohibited said corporations from selling at all; the title was
held defective. Luman v. Hitchens Co., 90 Md. 23; State v. King, 124 Md. 497.

The second and third sections of the act of 1906, ch. 257, amending the charter
of the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad Company, held invalid because not
sufficiently indicated or described in the title to said act. State v. Cumberland, etc
R. R. Co., 105 Md. 482.

Title of the act of 1865, ch. 14, incorporating the Pocomoke Bridge Company, held
defective, and certain provisions of that act stricken down. Somerset County v.
Pocomoke Bridge Co., 109 Md. 1.

Title of the act of 1910, ch. 382, was " An Act to Incorporate the Village of Chevy
Chase "; the portion of said act relating to the levying of taxes by the county com-
missioners of Montgomery county, etc., held not to be indicated or described in
the title. Curtis v. Mactier, 115 Md. 393.

If the legislature meant by the act of 1888, ch. 383, to provide for the voluntary
and involuntary adjudication of corporations in insolvency, then the act would have
been void under this section. Ellicott Machine Co. v. Speed, 72 Md. 26.

Liquor laws.

The act of 1894, ch. 484, in substance provided for an election in the town ,of
Cambridge to regulate the liquor traffic; sec. 10 of the law prohibited the sale