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examination, and if said commission so appointed by the Court
of Appeals, or a majority of them, shall approve the said Crim-
inal Code, they, or a majority of said commission, shall certify
in writing that they have examined and do approve and deter-
mine the same to be complete and correct, then the said Code
shall, by said commission to revise the Criminal Law, be sub-
mitted to the next General Assembly of the State for such ac-
tion thereon as it shall deem proper, looking to its being adopt-
ed and published as the Criminal Code in force in the State
of Maryland.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if said Criminal
Code shall be approved by said commission appointed by the
Court of Appeals, then the said State Reporter and Codifier,
in preparing the Code of Public General Laws which he is
directed to prepare after the session of the General Assembly
of 1910, shall omit therefrom such Articles, sections and parts
of Articles and sections, as relate exclusively to crimes and
punishments, and which are embraced in the said Criminal
Code, so far as the same may properly be omitted from the
Code of Public General Laws relating to other subjects; and
the Code so to be published by the State Reporter and Codifier
shall be styled "Code of Public Civil Laws of the State of
Maryland."

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the cost of printing
the copies of the Criminal Code to be submitted to the commis-
sioner to be appointed by the Court of Appeals for their exami-
nation, shall be paid out of the appropriation provided therefor
by the Act of 1908, Chapter 325.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1910.

ARTICLE LXXVII.

PUBLIC EDyCATION.

CHAPTER 757.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 43
of Article 77 of the Code of Public General Laws of the State
of Maryland, title "Public Education," sub-title "Schools,"
providing for the teaching of the International language
known as Esperanto in the public schools of this State, in
the discretion of the State Board of Education.

Whereas, The International language known as "Esperanto"
is making steady advance in many of the progressive nations