FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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lic General Laws, title "Corporations, sub-title "Insurance
Department," as said section was enacted by chapter 537 of
the acts of 1892, be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows :

Repeal.

143. Every insurance company doing business in any of the
counties of this State, shall, during the month of April of each
and every year, publish, in at least one newspaper published
in each of said counties, for three consecutive weeks, an
abstract of the annual statement as required by this article ;

Publications
by insurance
companies.

provided, that such publication shall not be required of mutual
insurance companies formed under any general or special law
of this State, which annually send a full and detailed state-
ment of the affairs and business of said companies to all of
their respective policy holders and to the State Insurance
Commissioner.

Proviso.

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

Approved April 6th, 1894.

CHAPTER 474.

AN ACT to repeal Section forty-seven of Article sixteen of
the Code of Public General Laws, title "Chancery," sub-title
"Inebriates," and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Effective.

Maryland, That section forty-seven of article sixteen of the
Code of Public General Laws, title " Chancery,'' sub-title
"Inebriates," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted
with amendments, so as to read as follows :

Repeal.

47. Whenever, by petition, under oath, any person shall be
alleged to be an habitual drunkard, incapable of taking'care of
himself or herself or his or her property, any Circuit Court of
this State and also either of the Circuit Courts of Baltimore city,
shall have the power, in its discretion, on such preliminary exam-
inations or inquiry, as it may think proper to make ex parte, to
issue a warrant to the sheriff of the county or city, respectively,
to arrest and bring the party so charged before such court; and
it shall be the duty of the sheriff to obey such warrant; and such

Appointment
of committee
for habitual
drunkard.