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sions of this and the preceding section shall not apply to those
students who shall have matriculated at the law department
of the University of Maryland, or the Baltimore University
School of Law prior to the first day of January, 1898, but
such students shall be admitted upon the production of their
diplomas of graduation as heretofore; and provided further,
that nothing contained in this act shall affect any law student
who has matriculated in any reputable law school before the
passage of this act.

Approved April 18th, 1916.

CHAPTER 510.

AN ACT to pension disabled volunteer firemen, their widows
and dependent children, and to appropriate a sum of money
to carry said Act into effect.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Ma/ryland, That whenever any volunteer fireman in good stand-
ing, of an incorporated volunteer fire company, in the State,
shall be permanently disabled as a direct result from active
participation in fighting a fire or while going to or from a
fire, the said fireman shall lay his case before the Executive
Committee of the Maryland State Firemen's Association, sup-
ported in all cases by the recommendation of the fire company
of which he is a member, and the Executive Committee afore-
said shall proceed to consider the same, and if the facts are
found as above stated, the name of the fireman shall be placed
on a list to be kept by the Secretary of State, to be known as
"Disabled Firemen's List, " and every person so placed on said
list shall be entitled to receive a pension from the State of
Three Hundred and Sixty Dollars ($360) per annum, to be
paid by the Treasurer of the Maryland State Firemen's Asso-
ciation so long as such pensioner is without other means of
comfortable support.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case of the
death of any volunteer fireman by accident or by sickness
resulting from the active participation in fighting a fire or
while going to or from a fire, and he leaves a widow and a
dependent child or children, the case shall be laid before said
Executive Committee of the Maryland State Firemen's Asso-
ciation, and if the facts are established as provided in Section
1, the widow and child or children as the case might be, shall