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Worcester County from the exceptions to said section
and to make the general provisions of said section ap-
plicable to said Worcester County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 1 of Article 10 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Attorneys at Law
and Attorneys in Fact, " sub-title "Admission to the Bar, "
be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
ments so as to read as follows:

1. No person shall practice the profession or perform
the services of an attorney at law within this State without
being admitted to the bar as hereinafter directed; and any
person who shall give legal advice, represent any person in
the trial of any case at law or in equity or prepare any
written instrument affecting the title to real estate, for pay
or reward, shall be deemed an attorney at law for purposes
of this Article; provided, however, that this section shall
not apply to Carroll County and Garrett County, so far as
it relates to the preparation of written instruments affect-
ing the title to real estate for pay or reward.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1933.

Approved April 21, 1933.

CHAPTER 287.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 16 of the Anno-
tated Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title
"Chancery, " sub-title "Pleading, Practice and Process, "
to be known as Section 225A, and to come in after Sec-
tion 225 of said Article, providing for a method of pro-
cedure by fiduciaries for making distribution or delivery
of property to persons who may be entitled in remain-
ders after life estates where the life tenants shall fail
to appear and claim the interest in said trust estates to
which they may be entitled for a period of seven years
from the dates on which a Court of Equity shall have
assumed jurisdiction of the trust property and where it
shall not be known to the fiduciaries, after diligent
search made by them, whether the life tenants are liv-