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such defendant or defendants so appealing from said judg-
ment. If said judgment shall be affirmed by the Court of
Appeals, said bond shall thereby be discharged, and title to said
property shall then vest in the petitioner as aforesaid, but if
said judgment shall be reversed by the Court of Appeals, then
said petitioner shall at once abandon and surrender possession
of said property or estate of such defendant or defendants, and
said bond shall thereupon be liable to such defendant or defen-
dants prevailing upon such appeal, for all damages as aforesaid
which have been occasioned to such defendants by the peti-
tioner, in taking possession and using the said property, before
the final determination of said appeal.

18. In the event that Section 17 should be declared void
for any reason by any Court of last resort, such invalidity of
Section 17, if so declared, shall not affect the validity or effect
of any of the other Sections of this Act, it hereby being de-
clared to be the intention of the Legislature that, even if Sec-
tion 17 be declared void, the remainder of the Act shall stand,
and to have the same effect as if said Section 17 had never been
enacted therewith.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage, provided that nothing in
this Act shall in any way affect any condemnation proceedings
which shall have been begun before the passage of this Act,
but all such proceedings shall be proceeded with and concluded
according to the provisions of the condemnation law applicable
thereto which was in force at the time said proceedings were
begun; except that in any case brought under said Chapter 117
of the Act of 1912 which has not reached the point where a
judgment of condemnation shall have been entered before the
passage of this Act, the further proceedings in said case shall
be in accordance with this Act. And provided further, that
nothing in this Act shall repeal or affect any law which may
have been or may be enacted by this Legislature to carry out
the provisions of Section 40-A of the Constitution.

Approved April 16th, 1914.

CHAPTER 464.

AN ACT to further protect Fur-Bearing Animals in Cecil
County, Maryland.