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the January Session of 1906, entitled An Act to add an addi-
tional section to Article 27 of the Code of Public General
Laws, title "Crimes and Punishments, " sub-title "Burglary, "
to be known as Sections 32A and 32B.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter 476 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland, passed at the January Session of 1906, be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments,
so as to read as follows:

SEC. 32A. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That any person who breaks and enters, either by day or
by night, any building, whether inhabitated or not, and opens
or attempts to open any vault, safe or other secure place by
the use of nitroglycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or other explo-
sive, shall be deemed guilty of burglary with explosives.

SEC. 32B. And be it enacted, That any person duly con-
victed of burglary with explosives shall be sentenced to the
penitentiary for not more than 40 years.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That nothing herein contained
shall be construed to exempt from punishment any person now
under indictment for the perpetration of said offenses herein-
before named at the time of the passage of this Act, upon con-
viction thereof in any of the courts of this State, but all per-
sons shall be liable upon conviction to punishment in accord-
ance with the provisions of law in force prior to the passage
thereof.

Approved March 3, 1908.

CHAPTER 694.

AN ACT to add a section to Article 27 of the Code of Public
General Laws as legalized by Chapter 72 of the Acts of 1904,
title "Crimes and Punishments, " sub-title "Desertion of
Wife and Child, " said section to be known as Section 70A.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a section be added to Article 27 of the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws as legalized by Chapter 72 of the Acts of
1904, title "Crimes and Punishments, " sub-title "Desertion
of Wife or Child, " said section to follow Section 70 and be
known as Section 70A, and to read as follows:

70A. When any person shall have been convicted under the
two preceding sections, or either of them, and sentenced to
imprisonment in the Maryland House of Correction, the court