ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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That the sanction of the General Assembly of Maryland be and

the same is hereby given to the deed of certain real estate situated

and lying in Fairmount district, Somerset county, Maryland, from

Sanction.

Susie E. Waters, Cadmus Dashiell and Sallie E. Dashiell to the

convention of protestant episcopal church in the diocese of Easton,

in manner and form as set forth in said deed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1890.

CHAPTER 410.

AN ACT to repeal section two hundred and thirty-three, of article

twenty-seven, of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Crimes

and Punishments," sub-title "Rape," and to re-enact the same

with amendments.

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

That section two hundred and thirty-three, of article twenty-

seven, of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Crimes and

Repeal

Punishments," sub-title "Rape," be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

233. If any person shall carnally know and abuse any woman-

child under the age of fourteen years, every such carnal knowledge

shall be deemed felony, and the offender being convicted thereof,

Felony

shall at the discretion of the court suffer death or imprisonment

for life in the penitentiary, or for a definite period not less than

eighteen months nor more than twenty-one years.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

Effective.

the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1890.

CHAPTER 411.

AN ACT to repeal section six, of article twenty-six, of the Code

of Public General Laws, title "Courts," and to re-enact the

same with amendments.

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

That section six, of article twenty-six, of the Code of Public

Repeal

General Laws, title "Courts," be and the same is hereby repealed

and re-enacted so as to read as follows :