LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

relating to the crime of rape, as now in force in this State ;
provided, that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to
male persons under the. age of eighteen years.
Approved April 7, 1898.

CHAPTER 219.
AN ACT to provide for the refunding and extension of
certain debts of this State, which are now payable or redeem-
able, or will become redeemable in the years eighteen hun-
dred and ninety-nine, nineteen hundred, nineteen hundred
and one, nineteen hundred and three, and nineteen hundred
and five, in so far as such debts may remain unpaid on the
first day pf October, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight;
and for the issue of State stock or certificates of indebted-
ness, for the purpose of providing three hundred thousand
dollars for the completion of the Maryland Penitentiary ;
eighty thousand dollars for the erection of new buildings at
the House of Correction ; two hundred and twenty thous-
and dollars for the erection of additional buildings at Second
Hospital for the Insane ; and three hundred thousand dollars
for the purchase of a site and the erection of an armory
building for the Fifth Regiment Infantry, Maryland National
Guard.
WHEREAS, Bonds or certificates of indebtedness of this State
issued under the Acts of eighteen hundred and eighty-two,

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chapter two hundred and eighty-nine; eighteen hundred and
eighty-six, chapter four hundred and forty-nine; eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-eight, chapter two hundred and one ; and
eighteen hundred and ninety, chapter three hundred and tive ;
and amounting in the aggregate to four million nine hundred
and sixty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars are outstand-
ing ; and
WHEREAS, It is desirable to provide for the extension of so
much of the said several debts, so issued as aforesaid, at a rate

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of interest not higher than three per centum per annum, aa
may remain unpaid on the first day of October, in the year
eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, in case where the holders
of any such bonds or certificates of indebtedness may desire to
extend the time of payment of the debts evidenced thereby at
such rate of interest, and to take up and pay such parts of the

Preamble.