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a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of all the mem-
bers elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly,
the same shall take effect from the first day of July, 1917.

Approved June 28th, 1917.

CHAPTER 8.

AN ACT to add an additional section to Article 27 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Crimes and Punish-
ments, " sub-title "Poison—Attempting to, " said additional
section to follow] immediately after Section 409 of said Arti-
cle and sub-title and to be numbered 409A.

•SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That an additional section be and the same hereby is
added to Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title
Crimes and Punishments, " sub-title "Poison—Attempting to, "
said additional section to follow immediately after Section 409
of said Article and sub-title, to be numbered 409A, and to read
as follows:

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409A. Every person, his aiders and abettors, who know-
ingly and wilfully poisons, defiles or in any way corrupts or
contaminates the waters of any well, spring, brook, lake, pond,
stream, river, reservoir or other source of water supply, or any
tributary thereof, used or usable for drinking or domestic pur-
poses, by means of disease germs or bacteria or the insertion
of any other poison or poisonous matter therein, or attempts
so to do, or conspires or connives thereat, and every person,
his aiders and abettors, who, by like means, knowingly and
wilfully poisons, defiles or in any way corrupts or contaminates
any drink, food or food products or supply, or attempts so to
do, or conspires or connives thereat, shall be guilty of a felony,
and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to imprisonment
in the Penitentiary for not more than twenty years, in the
discretion of the Court.