HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

be punished by imprisonment in the Jail or
House of Correction for not more than three
years, or in the Penitentiary for not more than
fifteen years; in every indictment for a viola-
tion of this section, when the offence shall re-

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late to coin or notes circulating as money, it
shall be sufficient to allege the embezzlement
to be of money, without specifying any par-
ticular coin or notes circulating as money, and
such allegation so far as regards the descrip-
tion of the property, shall be sustained if the
off ender shall be proved to have embezzled any
amount of coin or notes circulating as money,
although the particular species of coin or notes
circulating as money, of which such amount
was composed, shall not be proved.

Kind of money.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1886.

Effective.

CHAPTER 311.

AN ACT to repeal section thirty-seven, art-
icle seventy-five of the Code of Public
General Laws, relating to affidavits for con-
tinuance on account of absence of witnesses,
and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That section thirty-seven

of article seventy-five of the Code of Public
General Laws, relating to affidavits for con-
tinuance on account of absence of witnesses,
be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted, so as to read as follows :

SEC. 37. The Court may examine on oath a
party making the affidavit under the preced-
ing section, as it regards the materiality of the
testimony, the probability of procuring the

Repealed and
re-enacted.