LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

CHAPTER 445.

AN ACT to provide for the compensation of the Keeper of
the Jail for Saint Mary's county.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

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land, That the keeper of the jail of Saint Mary's county
shall be allowed as compensation for his services for attending
to the prisoners and the sanitary condition of the jail and the
rendering of such other services towards taking care of the
prisoners as the sheriff may direct, he shall be allowed by the
County Commissioners ten dollars per month and a sum not
exceeding twenty-five cents per week for the washing for each
prisoner, and shall have the use of the entire first floor of said
jail free of rent.

Compensa-
tion of
keeper of
jail.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.
Approved April 4, 1896.

CHAPTER 446.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 14,
22 and 24 of Article 47 of the Code of Public General Laws,
title " Insolvents."

Effective.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That sections 14, 22 and 24 of Article 47 of the Code of
Public General Laws, title "Insolvents," be, and the same are
hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as to read
as follows :

14. No deed or conveyance executed, or lien created by any
person being insolvent or in contemplation of insolvency, save

Repeal.

as hereinafter provided, shall be lawful or valid if the same
shall contain any preferences, save such as result from operation
of law, and save those for the wages or salaries to clerks, serv-
ants, salesmen and employes contracted not more than three
months anterior to the execution thereof; and all preferences,
with the exceptions aforesaid, shall be void, howsoever the same
may be made; provided, the grantor or party creating said lien
or preference shall be proceeded against under section 23 of
this article, or shall apply for the benefit of this article under
section 1 within four months after the recording of the deed
or conveyance or the creation of said lien or preference, and
shall be declared or shall become, under the provisions of this

Unlawful
deeds made
by Insol-
vents.