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If several persons respectively entitled to inherit from one
another should, after the passage of this Act, perish in the same
calamity such as a wreck, collision, battle, conflagration, flood,
earthquake, storm or accident, and it is not shown who died
first, and there are no particular circumstances from which it
can be inferred, survivorship shall be presumed from the
probabilities resulting from the strength, age and difference of
sexes, according to the following rules:—

A. If those who have perished together were under the age
of fifteen years, the eldest or elder (as the case
may be) shall be presumed to have survived.
B. If those who have perished together were above the
age of sixty years, the youngest or younger (as the
case may be) shall be presumed to have survived.
C. If those who have perished together were under the
age of fifteen years, and above sixty years, the
former shall be presumed to have survived.
D. If any of those who have perished together were un-
der the age of fifteen years, or over the age of sixty
years, and any were between said ages, the latter
shall be presumed to have survived.

E. If those who have perished together were above the

age of fifteen years, and under the age of sixty

years, and the sexes be different, the male shall be

presumed to have survived.

F. If those who have perished together were of the same
sex and were above the age of fifteen years, and
under the age of sixty years, the youngest or
younger (as the case may be) shall be presumed to
have survived.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the first day of June, 1920.

Approved April 9, 1920.

CHAPTER 109.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 155
of Article 93 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title
"Testamentary Law," sub-title "Guardian and Ward,"
regulating the bond to be given by a guardian.