WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 2049

for divorce or annulment may be taken pro confesso, the
court shall order testimony to be taken and shall decide the
case upon the testimony so taken.

39. All persons residing on property lying within the
physical boundaries of any county of this State or within
the boundaries of the City of Baltimore but on property over
which jurisdiction is exercised by the Government of the
United States by virtue of the 17th clause, 8th section of
First Article of the Constitution of the United States, and
Sections 31 and 32 of Article 96 of the Annotated Code of
the Public Laws of Maryland, shall be considered as resi-
dents of the State of Maryland and of the County or City
of Baltimore, as the case may be, in which the land is situate
for the purpose of jurisdiction in the Courts of Equity of
this State in all applications for divorce and for annulment
of marriage.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 16 of Arti-
cle 62 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition),
title "Marriages", as said section was amended by Chapter
664 of the Acts of 1945, be and it is hereby repealed, and that
a new Section 16 be and it is hereby enacted in lieu thereof
to read as follows:

16. The jurisdiction heretofore exercised under the pro-
visions of this section to annul marriages within prohibited
degrees and second marriages shall hereafter be exercised
under the provisions of Article 16, Section 38, governing the
annulment of marriage for any cause. In addition thereto,
whenever the Criminal Court of Baltimore City, or a Cir-
cuit Court of one of the counties shall convict one or both
of the spouses of bigamy, of marrying within any prohibited
degree, or of marrying between races prohibited by law to
intermarry, the judgment of conviction shall serve as an
annulment of said marriage, provided that there shall be
recorded on the records of the Circuit Court or Circuit
Court No. 2 of Baltimore City, in the case of a conviction
in the Criminal Court of Baltimore City, or, in the case of
a conviction in the Circuit Court of one of. the counties on
the equity docket of the same Court, a complete transcript
of the docket entries in the criminal proceedings leading to
said judgment of conviction.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1947.

Approved April 25, 1947.
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