578 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 306

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 319A of Chapter 78 of the Acts of the Spe-
cial Session of 1933, be repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments so as to read as follows:

319A. If any person shall break into any shop, store-house,
tobacco house, warehouse, or other building, although
the same be not contiguous to or used with any mansion house,
with intent to steal any money, goods or chattels under the
value of twenty-five dollars, or if any person shall break into
any shop, store house, tobacco house, warehouse, or other
building, although the same be not contiguous to or used with
any mansion house, and steals from thence any money, goods
or chattels under the value of one dollar, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and shall be tried before the Circuit Court
of the County wherein the offense may have been committed
or the Criminal Court of Baltimore City, if the offense be com-
mitted in the City of Baltimore, and being thereof convicted,
shall restore the goods and chattels so stolen, or pay the full
value thereof to the owner thereof, and be further sentenced
to the Penitentiary or House of Correction, or to the Jail of
the County in which the offense may have been committed, or
of the City of Baltimore, if the offense be committed in said
City, in the discretion of the Circuit Court of the County or
of the Criminal Court of Baltimore City, wherever the offense
may have been committed, for not more than eighteen months.

Provided that nothing in these sections shall be construed
to interfere with any prosecution that has or may hereafter
be commenced for any violation of these sections hereby re-
pealed or added happening previous to the date this law be-
comes effective.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and having
been passed upon a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of
its passage.

Approved May 18, 1937.

CHAPTER 306.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 1 to 13, inclusive, of Article 32 of
the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, 1935 Supple-
ment, Flack's Edition, title "Dentistry", and to re-enact in