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Session of 1902, be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

170. No insurance company, corporation or association,
chartered, incorporated or organized under the laws of the
State of Maryland, shall hereafter engage in or carry on the
business in this State of becoming surety or guarantor on bonds
of any kind, or the business of issuing policies of insurance
of the classes known as employers or public liability, personal
accident, plate glass, steam boiler, burglary, sprinkler leakage,
credit indemnity, health or any other kind of insurance, except
life, fire, windstorm, hailstorm, cyclone and marine policies,
and except insurance companies described in Sections 176 and
177 of this Article, or any insurance company doing what is
known as "Industrial Insurance" business until such com-
pany shall obtain first from the Insurance Commissioner of
Maryland a license of authority for that purpose.

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

Approved April 11, 1910.

CHAPTER 284.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 2
and 3 of Chapter 709 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of Maryland of the session of 1906, being Sections 204 and
205 of Article 23 of the Code of Public General Laws of the
year 1904, title "Corporations," subtitle "Fire Marshal."
SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 2 and 3 of Chapter 709 of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of Maryland of the session of 1906, being Sec-
tions 204 and 205 of Article 23 of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland of the year 1904, title "Corporations," sub-
title "Fire Marshal," be and the same are hereby repealed
and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

SEC. 204. It shall be the duty of the said Fire Marshal or
the Deputy Fire Marshal, hereinafter created, to examine into
the causes, circumstances and origin of all fires and suspected
attempts to set fire to any building, occurring within the State,
to which his attention may be called, and which, in his judg-
ment, requires examination; and in making said examina-
tions the said Fire Marshal or Deputy Fire Marshal may,
when in his judgment said proceedings are necessary, take the
testimony on oath of all persons supposed to be cognizant of
any facts, or to have the means of knowledge in relation to the
matters herein required to be examined and inquired into, and
to cause the said testimony to be reduced to writing; and when,