ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

such rent shall be conclusively presumed to have been
extinguished, and the landlord shall not thereafter set
up any claim thereto, or to the reversion in the lot
out of which it issued, or have the right to institute
any suit, action or proceeding whatsoever to recover
said rent or said lot; but in case such landlord shall
be under any legal disability when such period of twenty
years of non-demand or non-payment shall expire, he
shall have two years after the removal of such disa-

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bility, within which to assert his rights; provided,
however, that coverture shall not be considered to be
a disability within the provisions of this act, and that
no retroactive effect shall be given to this act, and that
the periods of limitations prescribed in this act shall
begin to run only from the passage hereof-
Approved April 8, 1884.

Proviso.

Chapter 503.

AN ACT to repeal sub-section three of chapter three
hundred and sixty-three, of the acts of the general
assembly of Maryland, passed at the session of eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled "An act to
amend section twenty-two of article forty-one, of the
Code of Public General Laws, sub-titled ' Fish and
Fisheries,' sub-titled Patuxent, regulating the right
of fishing in the Patuxent river and its tributaries,
as amended by the act of eighteen hundred and
seventy-four, chapter two hundred and nineteen,
and re-enact the same, adding thereto the following
sub-section," and to re enact the same with amend-
ments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That sub-section three of chapter three

hundred and sixty-three, of the acts of the general
assembly of Maryland, passed at the session of eigh-
teen hundred and seventy-eight, entitled an act to
amend section twenty-two of article forty-one, of the

Repealed and
re-enacted.