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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 471.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact the act of eighteen

hundred and seventy-two, chapter two hundred

and thirteen, entitled " An act to repeal section

second of article sixty-four of the Code of Public

General Laws," relating to mortgages, and to re-

enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That section second of article

sixty-four of the Code of Public General Laws, as

Repealed and
re-enacted.

amended by chapter two hundred and thirteen of

the acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be

and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as

to read as follows:

SECTION 2. No mortgage or deed in the nature of

a mortgage shall be a lien or charge on any estate

or property for any other or different principal sum

or sums of money than the principal sum or sums

When not a
Hen.

that shall appear on the face of such mortgage, and
be specified and recited therein, and particularly

mentioned and expressed to be received thereby at

the time of executing the same; and no mortgage

or deed in the nature of a mortgage shall be a lien

or charge for any sum or sums of money to be

loaned or advanced after the same is executed ex-

cept from the time said loan or advance shall be

actually made; and no mortgage to secure such

When valid.

future loans or advances shall be valid unless the

amount or amounts of the same, and the times when

they are to be made, shall be specifically stated in

said mortgages; this not to apply to mortgages to

indemnify the mortgagee against loss from being

endorser or security, nor to any mortgages given by

brewers to malsters to secure the payment to the

latter of debts contracted by the former for malt

and other material used in the making of malt

liquors; provided, however, that Baltimore and

Prince George's counties be excepted from said

Excepted.

amendment and repeal of section two of article

sixty-four, and that the said section of the said

article shall be and remain in force in the said

counties.

Approved May 3, 1882.