730 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 356

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That an additional Section be, and the same is
hereby added to Article 21 of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland (Bagby's Code), title "Conveyancing, " to
be known as Section 53B and to be sub-titled "Conditional
Contracts of Sales, " and when so added to read as follows:

53B. Every note, sale or contract for the sale of goods and
chattels, wherein the title thereto, or a lien thereon, is reserved
until the same be paid in whole or in part, or the transfer of
title is made to depend upon any condition therein expressed,
and possession is to be delivered to the vendee, shall, in respect
to such reservation and condition, be void as to third persons
without notice until such note, sale or contract be in writing,
signed by the vendee, and be recorded in the Clerk's Office
of Baltimore City, or the Counties, as the case may be, where
bills of sale are now recorded; and such recording shall be
sufficient to give actual or constructive notice to third persons
when a memorandum of the paper writing, setting forth the
date thereof, the amount due thereon, when and how payable
and a brief description of the goods and chattels therein men-
tioned shall have been recorded, but it shall not be necessary
that said paper writing be acknowledged or an affidavit made
to the consideration therein expressed as in the case of bills of
sale.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act will take
effect on the first day of June, 1916.

Approved April 18th, 1916.

CHAPTER 356.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the Comptroller of the State
Treasury to refund to William S. Cullen, money paid by
him by mistake for Fishery License for 1914.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be, and he
is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant upon
the State Treasury in favor of William S. Cullen, for the sum
of Seven Dollars and Sixty Cents ($7. 60), being the amount
of money paid by the said William S. Cullen into the State
Treasury by mistake for Fishery License for 1914.