LLOTD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

intents and purposes as if made under the provisions of this
act. Such supervisors shall take the oath by this act required ;
they shall hold office until their successors are appointed,
respectively, under its provisions; and in their several counties
and in said city they shall have all the powers, privileges,
emoluments and responsibilities, and shall discharge all the
duties conferred and imposed by this act upon the supervisors
of elections originally appointed under its provisions.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That this act shall take effect

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from and after the date of its passage, and all Public General
Laws or Public Local Laws or parts thereof which are inconsistent
with the provisions of this article be, and the same are hereby
repealed; provided, that every offense which has been or shall
have been wholly or partly committed against any of said Public
General or Public Local Laws or parts thereof before this act
goes into operation, shall be dealt with, inquired into, tried,

Effective.

determined and punished; and any penalty in respect to any
Bach offense shall be imposed or inflicted, and any fine shall be
imposed, enforced or recovered in the same manner as if the
said laws or parts thereof had not been repealed; and no case
pending shall abate, by reason of such repeal, and every act
duly done and every warrant or other instrument duly issued,
made or granted before this act comes into operation, shall con-
tinue and be of the same force and effect as if the said laws or
parts thereof had not been repealed; and provided, also, that
any right, liability, privileges and protection in respect to any
matter or thing committed or done before this act comes into
operation, shall continue and be of the same force and effect as
if the said laws or parts thereof had not been repealed; and
every action, prosecution or other proceeding which shall have
commenced before this act comes into operation or shall there-
after be commenced in respect to any such matter or thing done
before this act comes into operation, may be prosecuted, con-
tinued and defended in the same manner as if said laws or parts
thereof had not been repealed; and provided, also, that nothing
in this act shall be construed to repeal any provisions of the
existing laws applicable to the city of Baltimore for the preven-
tion of the sale or dispensing of any liquor or for the preserva-
tion of peace and order therein on any election day.

Approved April 2d, 1896.

Provisos.