336 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 221

title "Divorce", to follow immediately after Section 42 of
said Article, to be known as Section 42-A of said Article,
authorizing and empowering Courts of Equity upon grant-
ing a divorce to hear and determine all questions with re-
spect to the ownership and disposition of personal prop-
erty possessed or claimed by the parties to such divorce
proceedings.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and it is hereby added to Article
16 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title
"Chancery", sub-title "Divorce", to follow immediately after
Section 42 of said Article and to be known as Section 42-A
of said Article, and to read as follows:

42-A. Whenever a Court shall grant a divorce a mensa
et thoro or a divorce a vinculo matrimonii, it shall have the
power to hear and determine all questions which may arise
between the parties to such proceeding in connection with
the ownership of personal property (except chattels real)
held, possessed or claimed by either or both of them, and
shall have the power to make a division of such property
between them, or order a sale thereof and a division of the
proceeds of such sale, or make such other disposition thereof
as the Court may deem proper.

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

Approved March 29, 1947.

CHAPTER 221.
(House Bill 190)

AN ACT to provide for a bond issue by the Mayor and Coun-
cil of Kitzmillersville, Garrett County, Maryland, for the
purpose of securing funds with which to retire the bonds
issued under the authority granted by Chapter 283 of the
Acts of 1931, and for the further improvement of the
streets of said Town of Kitzmillersville, to levy taxes on
the assessable property of said town to redeem said bonds
and to pay the interest thereon, and to submit to the
legally qualified voters of said town the question as to
whether or not said bonds shall be issued.