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women and substitute charwomen so employed shall, begin-
ning with the first of January, 1925, each receive a salary of
seventeen dollars and fifty cents a week, payable at such regu-
lar periods as the Police Commissioner may prescribe, not less
than twice a month, said salary to be paid by the Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore and to be included in the annual
estimate of expenses by said Police Commissioner, certified to
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1924.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 447.

AN ACT to Amend Section 134 of Article 27 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, Bagby's Edition, As
Said Section was amended by the Act of 1918, Chapter
279, —Said Article being Entitled "Crimes And Punish-
ment" and said Sub-Section being Entitled "Fraud-Board-
ing House, Hotel and Livery Stable Keepers" By Repeal-
ing said Section 134 and re-enacting the same with Amend-
ments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 134 Article 27 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws of Maryland, Bagby's Edition, as said Section was
amended by the Act of 1918, Chapter 279, said Article be-
ing entitled ''Crimes and Punishment" and said Sub-Section
being entitled "Fraud-Boarding House, Hotel and Livery
Stable Keepers, " be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted so as to read:

134. Every person who shall at any hotel, inn, boarding
house, hospital, sanitarium or livery stable receive or cause to
be furnished any food or accommodation for man or beast,
and shall fraudulently fail to pay for same, and every per-
son who shall obtain credit at any hotel, inn, boarding house,
hospital or sanitarium by the use of any false pretense or de-
vice, or by fraudulently depositing at such hotel, inn, board-
ing house, hospital or sanitarium any baggage or property of
value less than the amount of such credit or of the bill by
such person incurred; and every person who, after obtain-
ing credit or accommodation at any hotel, inn, boarding house,
hospital or sanitarium shall abscond or fraudulently depart