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cessors have been elected under the provisions of this article,
and have duly qualified.

213. The election for the said eight members of the Second
Branch shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Mon-
day in May, in the year nineteen hundred and eleven, and upon
every fourth year thereafter. Their terms of office shall be for
four years. The members of the Second Branch now in office
shall hold office until their successors have been elected under
the provisions of this article, and have duly qualified.

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

Approved March 30, 1908.

CHAPTER 644.

AN ACT to add a new section to article' 4, entitled "City of
Baltimore," of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
as repealed and re-enacted by Act of Assembly of Maryland
of 1898, chapter 123, to be known as section 315A.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the following section be added to article 4, entitled
"City of Baltimore," of the Code of Public Local Laws of
Maryland, as repealed and re-enacted by Act of Assembly of
Maryland of 1898, chapter 123, to be known as section 315A,
and to read as follows:

315A. In all cases brought under the provisions of section 312
of said article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland,
as repealed and re-enacted by Act of Assembly of 1898, chapter
123, where the verdict of the jury or the court, sitting as a jury,
shall be for the defendant, the defendant shall be allowed, in
addition to his costs of suit, reasonable counsel fees, not to be
less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred
dollars.

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

Approved April 6, 1908.

CHAPTER 460.

AN ACT to repeal chapter 624 of the Acts of the General As-
sembly of Maryland of 1904, entitled An Act to add an addi-
tional section to the Act of 1898, chapter 123, entitled "City