ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 197.

AN ACT to amend article four, section six hundred and ninety-

two, of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "Baltimore city,"

sub-title "Mortgages," so as to include goods and chattels in

the decrees for sales by consent.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That article four, section six hundred and ninety-two, of the

Repeal.

Code of Public Local Laws, title "Baltimore city," sub-title

"Mortgages," is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as

follows :

SEC. 692. In all cases of conveyances of lands or hereditaments

or of chattels real, or goods and chattels personal, situate in the

said city, wherein the mortgagor shall declare his assent to the

passing of a decree for the sale of the same, it shall be lawful

for the mortgagee or his assigns at any time after filing the same

to be recorded, to submit to either of the circuit courts of Balti-

more city the said conveyances or copies thereof under seal of the

May

superior court, and the circuit court to which the same is so sub-

decree.

mitted, may thereupon forthwith decree that the mortgaged

premises shall be sold at any one of the periods limited in said

conveyances for the forfeiture of said mortgages or limited for a

default of the mortgagors, and on such terms of sale as to the

said court may seem proper, and shall appoint by said decree a

trustee or trustees for making such sale, and shall require bond

and security for the performance of the trust as is usual in cases

of sales of mortgaged premises.

Approved March 27, 1890.

CHAPTER 198.

AN ACT in relation to cruelty to animals.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,

That any person who wilfully sets on foot, instigates, engages in,

or in any ways furthers any act of cruelty to any animal, or any

Misdemea-

act ten ding to produce such cruelty, or by any act, conduct, neglect,

nor.

or omission wilfully causes, permits or suffers any animal to

undergo any species of torture or cruelty shall be deemed guilty

of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the words torture or cruelty

shall be held to include everything whereby unjustifiable physical

pain suffering or death is caused or permitted, and the word

To define

animal shall be held to include every living creature except men.

Approved March 27, 1890.