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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Sanction
given.

declared to the deed from Susan S. Silver, since deceased, to
the Deer Creek Harmony Presbyterian Church, in Harford
county, which deed is recorded amongst the land records of
Baltimore city, in Liber R. O. No. 1629, folio 496, and also to
a bequest of five hundred dollars to the said church made by
the late Mary C. Silver, in her last will and testament, which
is recorded amongst the will records of Harford county, in
Liber G. S. N. No. 12, folio 28.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 9, 1898.

CHAPTER 501.
AN ACT to repeal Section 146 D of Article 81 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, title ''Revenue and
Taxes," as said Section 146 n is enacted and added to said
Article 81 by Chapter 120 of the Acts of the General Assem-
bly of Maryland, passed at its January Session, in the year
1896, and to re-enact said Section 146 D with amendments.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Repeal.

land, That section 146 oof Article 81 of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, as the same appears in chapter 120
of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, passed at
its January session, in the year eighteen hundred and ninety
six, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as to
read as follows:

Additional
oath to be
taken.

146 D. After the passage of this Act, any person or corpora-
tion lending money on mortgage upon property in this State,
their agent or attorney, in addition to the usual oath, (or solemn
affirmation, if such person, agent or attorney be conscientiously
scrupulous of taking an oath,) -as to the bona fides of the con-
sideration, shall take an oath, or make solemn affirmation, to
be endorsed upon the mortgage and to follow immediately
after the aforementioned oath or affirmation, as follows : "And
also make oath on the Holy Evangel of Almighty God (or
does solemnly and truly declare and affirm) that he has not
required the mortgagor, his agent or attorney, or any person
for the said mortgagor, to pay the tax levied upon the interest
covenanted to be paid, in advance, nor will he require the same
to be paid by the mortgagor, or any person for him during the
existence of this mortgage," and upon the assignment of any
mortgage in this State, except for the purpose of foreclosure,