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and the preceding sections, the land may be taken up by any
other person under a proclamation warrant or escheat warrant,
as the case may be.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from and after the first day of June, 1918.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER 152.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 39A of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, title "Forestry", to follow immediately
after Section 16 of said article, to be known as Section 16A,
the same fixing the measure of damages for the unlawful in-
jury or destruction of merchantable trees or timber.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and the same is hereby added to
Article 39A of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title "For-
estry", to follow immediately after Section 16 of said Article,
to be known as Section 16A, and the same to read as follows:

16A. Every person, his aiders, abettors and counsellors, who
shall wilfully, negligently, recklessly, wrongfully or maliciously
enter upon lands or premises, not his or their own, and, with-
out the permission or authority of the owners of said lands or
premises, shall cut, burn or otherwise injure and destroy or
cause or procure to be cut, burned or otherwise injured and
destroyed, any merchantable trees or timber thereon, shall be
liable to the party or parties injured or aggrieved thereby to
an amount equal to double the value of such trees or timber so
cut, burned, or otherwise injured or destroyed, such damages
to be recovered in a civil action, as in any other case.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from and after June 1, 1918.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER 153.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the State of Maryland,
through the State Board of Prison Control, a body corporate
of the State of Maryland, to convey to the Baltimore and