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dren filing his petition to said Orphans' Court requesting

said court, to allow the administrator to pay to said child

or children the share or portion, or any part thereof, to

which they or either of them would be entitled upon the

death of said husband, at or during the lifetime or before

the death of said husband, it shall and may be competent

for said Orphans' Court upon the filing of such petition by

said husband to order and direct said administrator to make

such advance payment to such child or children, and the

joint release of such husband and child or children, duly

executed acknowledged and recorded in said Orphans'

Court shall be deemed and taken as a good and sufficient

acquaintance to said admistrator for and on account of such

payment.

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

Effective

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th; 1892.

CHAPTER 441.

AN ACT to repeal section 119 G of the Code of Public Gen-

eral Laws, title "Corporations," sub-title "Insurance

Companies " amended by the act of the General Assembly

of Maryland of 1890, chapter 254, entitled an "Act to pre-

vent life insurance companies incorporated under the laws

of other States, or counties and doing business in the State

of Maryland, from making or permitting any distinction

or discrimination in favor of individuals of the same class

and equal expectation of life in the amount of payment of

premiums or rates charged for policies of life endowment

insurance," and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Amend-
ments.

Maryland, That section one hundred and nineteen C of the

Code of Public General Laws of the State of Maryland, title

"Corporations," sub-title "Insurance Companies," be and

the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments

so as to read as follows :

119 C. Any life insurance company, its agent or agents

Misde-

violatiug section one hundred and nineteen A, or one hun-

meanor.

dred and nineteen B, of this act shall be guilty of a misde-

meanor and upon conviction thereof, the offender or offenders,

shall be sentenced to pay a fine of five hundred dollars on