1904, Chapter 12.

AN ACT to legalize'the Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland, containing the Articles and" Sections of the pres-
ent Code, and subsequent Public General Laws now in force,
as codified by John Prentiss Poe, and to make the same evi-
dence in the courts of the State, and before all the justices
of the peace of the State, and all public officials of the
State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Code of Public General Laws of the State of
Maryland, containing the articles and sections of the present
Code, and the subsequent. Public General Laws now in force,
codified by John Prentiss Poe, be and the same is hereby
legalized and shall be deemed and taken in all the courts of
the State, and by all the justices of the peace of the State, and
by all public officials of the State, to be evidence of the Public
General Laws of the State contained in the present Code and
the Public General Laws enacted subsequent thereto; provided,
that before the same be published the Public General Laws
enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland at its session of
1904 be incorporated therein.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from
the date of its passage.

Approved March 15, 1904.