12 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

	CHAPTER 9.
Passed Dec, 19,1861.	An ACT to amend the eighth section of Article forty-fifth of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled, "Husband and Wife," relating to the Insurance, of the life of the Husband for the use and benefit of the Wife.
Repealed.	SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General Assem- bly of Maryland, That the eighth section of Article forty-fifth of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled, "Husband and Wife," be and the same is hereby repealed, and the following enacted as a substitute therefor:
The husband's life may be in- sured for the sole benefit oi the wife.	8. Any married woman, by herself and in her name, or in the na.me of any third person, with his assent, as her trustee, may cause to be insured for her sole use, the life of her husband for any definite period, or for the term "of his natural life; and any husband may cause his own life to be in- sured for the sole use of his wife, and may also assign any policy of insurance upon his own life, to his wife, for her sole use; and in case of the wife surviving her husband, the sum or net amount of such insurance bepoming due and payable by the terms of the insurance, shall be payable to her for her own use, free from the claims of the repre- sentatives of her husband, or any of his creditors.
In force.	Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from the date of its passage.

	CHAPTER 10.
Passed Dec. 21, 1861.	AN ACT making an appropriation for the Execu- tive Contingent Fund.
Appropria- tion.	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the sum of three thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated for the Executive Contingent Fund, for the year eigh- teen hundred and sixty-one.