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thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the treasurer of the
State is authorized and directed to pay the same or so much
thereof as may be necessary to the board of managers of the
Second Hospital for the Insane of the State of Maryland, on the
warrant of the comptroller, at such times and in such amounts
as the board of managers may require.

1894, ch. 231.

22. The said board of managers shall make, annually, a
detailed report to the Governor of all moneys received and
expended by them in carrying out the provisions of this sub-title.

ARTICLE XLV.

HUSBAND AND WIFE.

1. Wife's property not liable for husband's debt. Husband may not prejudice rights of subsis- ting creditors by conveyance to the wife. Creditors must assert their claims within three years from such conveyance. 2. Rights of creditors in cases of conveyance from husband to wife directly or indirectly. 8. Trustee not necessary to married woman for the security and separate use of her property May have trustee if she so de- sires. 4. Married women may hold and dispose of their property as fully as if unmarried. Hus- band must unite in convey- ances of married women under eighteen years. 5. Married women may engage in business, contract, sue and be

sued upon contracts and for torts, as if unmarried. 6. Rights of widow to dower in lands held by legal or equitable title by husband during cover- ture. 7. Husband shall acquire estate for life in one-third of wife's lands 8. Married women may insure life of her husband for her sole use. Husband may cause his life to be insured for wife's sole use. Such insurance to be free from all claims of hus- band's representatives or his creditors. 9. Policies taken out or assigned for benefit of wife, children or dependent relative to be free from claims of creditors of insured.