168 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

articles from distress for rent, and to re-enact the same with
amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 17 of Article 53 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws, title "Landlord and Tenant, " as repealed and re-
enacted by the Act of. the General Assembly of Maryland,
passed at the session of 1904, Chapter 568, be and the same is
hereby" repealed and re-enacted with amendments to read as
follows:

17. - The following property shall be exempt from distress for
rent, to wit: Every spinning-wheel, loom, sewing-machine, type-
writer, stove, cash register, piano, organ or other musical in-
strument not the property of the tenant or rented, hired or
loaned to the tenant; and every horse, carriage and harness,
whip and robe, saddle and bridle, or motor vehicle and appur-
tenances not the property of the tenant, in any livery stable
or garage, or which may be stored with any keeper of any livery
stable or garage or other persons, or in any other place, out-
house or barn of the tenant; and all property of any boarder
or sojourner at any hotel, tavern, public or private boarding-
house; and any vehicle not the property of the tenant in any
shop for repair; and the goods and chattels of the innocent
tenant who has paid his rent to the owner of the leasehold
estate shall be exempt from distraint for ground rent if any
due and owing to the ground rent landlord by the owner of the
leasehold estate.

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

Approved March 18, 1908.

ARTICLE LIV.

LAND OFFICE.

CHAPTER 81.

AN ACT to repeal Section 2 of Article 54 of the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws of Maryland, entitled "Land Office, " sub-
title "Commissioner of the Land Office, His Powers and
Duties, " and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 2 of Article 54 of the Code of Public General
Laws, entitled "Land Office, " sub-title "Commissioner of the
Land Office, His Powers and Duties, " be and the same is hereby
repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows: