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CHAPTER 213.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the Board of Police Com-
missioners of Baltimore City or its successor in office to re-
open and retry the case of Gerhard Hauptman, an ex-Patrol-
man of the Police Force of Baltimore City, and to reinstate
the said Gerhard Hauptman as a member of the said Police
Force if, in its judgment, it shall deem the same proper or
expedient.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the Board of Police Commissioners of Baltimore City, or the
Board which is to succeed it in office, be and it or its successors
is hereby empowered and authorized to reopen and retry the
case of Gerhard Hauptman, an ex-Patrolman of the Police
Force of Baltimore City, and authority is hereby conferred
upon the said Board or its successor in office to reinstate
Gerhard Hauptman as a Patrolman of the Police Force of the
City of Baltimore, if the said Board or its duly qualified suc-
cessor shall deem the same proper or expedient.

Approved April 11th, 1916.

CHAPTER 214.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 335
of Article 27 of the Code of Public General Laws of 1904,
title "Crimes and Punishments, " sub-title "Murder. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 335 of Article 27 of the Code of Pub-
lic General Laws of 1904, title "Crimes and Punishments, "
sub-title "Murder, " be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments, so as to read as follows:

335. Every person convicted of murder in the first degree,
his or her aiders, abettors and counsellors, shall suffer death,
or undergo a confinement in the penitentiary of the State for
the period of their natural life, in the discretion of the Court
before whom such person may be tried; provided, however, that
the jury in a murder case who render a verdict of murder in
the first degree, may add thereto the words "without capital
punishment, " in which case the sentence of the court shall be
imprisonment for life, and in no case where a jury shall have
rendered a verdict in manner and form as hereinbefore pre-