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poration from the payment of any tax or the performance of any
obligation to the State or to any county or city therein due or
existing on June 1, 1924, or affect or change the remedy for the
collection or enforcement of the same; and nothing in this Act
shall release, affect or impair the rights of any creditor of any
corporation, or the obligations or liability of any corporation or
of any stockholder, director or officer of any corporation exist-
ing on June 1, 1924, or affect or change the remedy for the col-
lection or enforcement of the same.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 551.

AN ACT to repeal Section 3 of Article 75 of Bagby's Anno-
tated Code of Maryland, titled "Pleadings, Practice and
Process at Law", sub-title, "Pleadings", and to re-enact the
same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 3 of Article 75 of Bagby's Annotated Code
of Maryland, title "Pleadings, Practice and Process at Law",
sub-title, "Pleadings", be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

SEC. 3. Any declaration which contains a plain statement
of the facts necessary to constitute a ground of action shall
be sufficient, and any plea necessary to form a legal defense
shall be sufficient, without reference to mere form; this to ap-
ply to replications, rejoinders and all subsequent pleadings;
provided, that every action for damages wherein the judgment
or any part thereof, which may be recoverable, shall inure to
the benefit of any person claiming the same by reason of sub-
rogation, shall be prosecuted in the name or names of the real
party or parties in interest so claiming by subrogation; and
upon petition of any defendant to said suit or action, the
Court shall order any person having such right by subrogation
to be made a party plaintiff.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 552.

AN ACT to declare the sanction and consent of the General
Assembly of Maryland to sundry gifts, bequests and devises
contained in the last wills and testaments of certain per-
sons, deceased, and also to certain gifts, grants, sales, leases