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receive bids for such notes, bonds or other evidence of in-
debtedness, which to them is deemed adequate, the said
County Commissioners may issue the same and pledge and
re-pledge the same as collateral upon such temporary loans
as may be made by them for the purposes herein contained,
and the sum or sums of money borrowed under any of the
provisions hereof; after payment of costs and expenses in-
cident thereto, shall be by said Commissioners of Allegany
County, distributed for the purposes aforesaid in such man-
ner and under such regulations as may be deemed proper
by the said County Commissioners of Allegany County.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency law and necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public health and safety
and being passed by 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 April 21, 1933.

CHAPTER 549.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
187 of Article 16 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1924 Edition), title "Chancery, " sub-title "Pleading,
Practice and Process, " providing that where a bill in
Chancery is amended and any of the parties defendant
is an infant, or non-sane defendant, notice of the amend-
ment may be given by service of the amended bill upon
the legal guardian, committee, or guardian ad litem of
said infant or non-sane defendant, or upon his solicitor.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 187 of Article 16 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Chancery, " sub-
title "Pleading, Practice and Process, " be and the same is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

187. If the plaintiff, so obtaining any order to amend
his bill after answer or demurrer thereto, shall
not make the amendment within the time allowed, he