LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

203. All shares of stock in any bank (other than a National
bank) incorporated by or located in or doing business in this

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State, shall be valued and assessed for the purpose of State,
county and municipal taxation to the owners thereof in the
county or city in this State, in which said owners may respec-
tively reside, in the same manner and to all intents and purposes
as if the said shares of stock were shares of stock in a National
bank located in this State, to the end that at no time shall the
shares of stock in any bank incorporated by or located in or doing
business in this State (other than a National bank), or the
owner or owners thereof be liable for or subject to any other
or greater taxation than the same, or the owner or owners
thereof would be if the said shares of stock were shares of
stock in a National bank located in this State.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all Acts or parts

Valued and
assessed
for State
purposes

of Acts, laws or parts of laws inconsistent herewith, to the
extent of such inconsistency, be and the same are hereby
repealed.

Repeal.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
Approved April 9, 1898.

CHAPTER 287.
AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections
84 A and 84 B of Article XXVII of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, title " Crimes and Punishments,"
sub-title "False Pretenses," relating to frauds and false
pretenses upon hotel and livery-stable keepers, as amended
and re-enacted by the Act of 1894, Chapter 418:
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 84 A and 84 B of Article XXVII of the

Effective

Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Crimes
and Punishments," sub-title "False Pretenses," relating to
frauds and false pretenses upon hotel and livery-stable keepers,
as amended and re-enacted by the Act of 1894, Chapter 418,
be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted with
amendments, so as to read as follows :

Repeal.

84 A. Every person who shall by any false or fraudulent
representations, or by any false show of baggage, goods or chat-
tels, which are calculated to deceive any hotel proprietor,
keeper or manager, obtain lodging or credit, or the use of any

Guilty of mis-
demeanor.