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allowed upon demurrer to or traverse of the same, the defendant
who has so pleaded shall thereupon have the right to plead over
to the merits of the case without withdrawing his dilatory plea,
and upon appeal or writ of error he shall be entitled to have
the questions of law arising upon his dilatory plea decided and
determined as fully to every intent as if he had not pleaded
over to the merits.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall go
into effect on September 1st, 1914.

Approved March 12th, 1914.

CHAPTER 69.

AN ACT to repeal Chapter 56 of the Public Local Laws of Anne
Arundel County, passed at the January Session, 1912, entitled
An Act to authorize and empower the visitors of Anne Arun-
del County Free School, a body politic, to sell all of its land in
Anne Arundel County, including two acres excepted by Chap-
ter 577 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland,
1910, and to purchase other land at or near Rutland in said
County, for the purpose of erecting thereon a new school
house; in so far as said Act relates to the sale of said two
acres so excepted and to re-enact with amendments, said
amendments authorizing and empowering the Board of Vis-
itors of Anne Arundel County to sell the said two acres of
land to Luther L. McKenny.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter 56 of the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland, passed at the January Session, 1912, entitled "An
Act to authorize and empower the Board of Visitors of Anne
Arundel County Free School, a body politic, to sell all of its
land in Anne Arundel County, including the two acres excepted
by Chapter 577 of the Acts of 1910, and to purchase other
land at or near Rutland in said County, for the purpose of
erecting thereon a new school house, be repealed in so far as it
related to the sale of the two acres excepted by Chapter 577 of
the Acts of the General Assembly of 1910, and re-enacted with
amendments, so as to read as follows:

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That authority be and the same
is hereby granted unto Benjamin Watkins, Sr., Robert W. Kent,
Ephraim Gaither, Daniel W. Townshend and Julian M. Beard,
or whosoever constitutes the Board of Visitors of Anne Arundel