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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Amend-

Maryland. That said section two of said act of eighteen

ment

hundred and ninety, chapter two hundred and two, be and

the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as

follows :

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in payment of

said appropriation of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,

Appropri-
ation.

of which the sum of two hundred thousand dollars remains

undrawn, the comptroller is hereby authorized and directed

to issue from time to time his warrants on the treasurer,

payable to the order of the Board of Directors of the Mary-

land Penitentiary for such sum or sums as may be stated in

written requisitions on the comptroller, signed by said

board of directors and approved by the Governor ; provided,

that not more than fifty thousand dollars of said appropria-

tion shall be drawn in any one year.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That this act shall

Effective

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 392.

AN ACT to add an additional section to article sixty-six of

the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title

" Mortgages" to be numbered section twenty -five, provid-

ing that the title to all promissory notes, other instruments

hereafter made, or debts hereafter contracted, secured by

mortgage, or deeds in the nature of a mortgage, shall from

and after the maturity of such promissory notes, other

instruments or debts be conclusively presumed to be vested

in the person or persons or body corporate holding the

record title to such mortgage or deed, in the nature of a

mortgage, be duly released of record, such overdue promis-

sory note, other instruments or debt shall be conclusively

presumed to be paid.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That an additional section be added to article

New
section.

sixty -six of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland,

title "Mortgages " to be numbered twenty -five and to read

as follows :

25. The title to all promissory notes, other instruments

hereafter made and debts hereafter contracted, secured by