ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1047

to assent to said change, shall become null and void after the
lapse of thirty days from the date of said reorganization, and
the payment to said dissenting* members or policy holders of
the proportionate amounts due to each of them respectively,
and any judgment notes, if any, given by members or policy
holders in the original mutual company, whether said mem-
bers or policy holders shall have subscribed to stock in the
company as reorganized or shall have failed or declined to do
so, shall, upon the payment and receipt of stock in the com-
pany as reorganized, or upon the receipt of their proportionate
amount of the assets therein, as the case may be, become null
and void.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on June 1st, 1922.

Approved April 13th, 1922.

CHAPTER 474.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Sections 153,
157, 158 and 159 of Article 77 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland title "Public Education" sub-title "School At-
tendance ''.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by tlie General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 153, 157, 158 and 159 of Article 77 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, title "Public Education" sub-
title "School Attendance", be, and the same are hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows •

153. Every child residing in Baltimore City between
seven and fourteen years of age shall attend some school reg-
ularly as defined in section 160 of this sub-title, during the
entire period of each year, the public day schools in said city
in which said child resides are in session, unless it can be
shown that the child is elsewhere receiving regularly thorough
instruction during said period in the studies usually taught
in the said public schools to children of the same age; provided
that the superintendent or principal of any school, or person or
or persons duly authorized by said superintendent or principal
may excuse cases of necessary absence among its enrolled pupils;
and provided further, that the provisions of this section shall
not apply to a child whose mental or physical condition is such