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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

for other non-residents, but in no case shall a bill or
petition be taken pro confesso against an absent in-

fant defendant.

In force.

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

take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1878.

CHAPTER 323.

AN ACT to repeal section seventy of article nine

of the Code of Public Local Laws of Charles

county, title " Legal Notices," and to re-enact the

same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

Repealed and
re-enacted.

of Maryland, That section seventy of article nine
of the Code of Public Local Laws for Charles

county, under the head of " Legal Notices," be re-

pealed, re-enacted and amended as follows :

SEC. 70. Executors, administrators, trustees, sher-

iffs, ex-sheriffs, coroners, constables and collectors of

Exercise
discretionary
power.

taxes in Charles county may exercise a discretionary
power as to notices which the laws of this State re-
quire to be given in newspapers, either by inserting

them in newspapers or by putting them up at the

court-house door and other public places in the

county.

In force.

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

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 5, 1878.