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lars ($1, 200) per year, and was, therefore, not entitled to a
pension; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be and
they are hereby authorized and directed to pay a pension of six
hundred dollars ($600) per year in monthly instalments of
fifty dollars ($50) each during his lifetime, and that the said
amount be included in the Ordinance of Estimates, beginning
with the year January 1, 1925.

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

CHAPTER 150.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments. Section 32
of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title,
"Crimes and Punishments, " sub-title, "Burglary. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 32 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title. "Crimes and Punishments, " sub-title, "Bur-
glary, " be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, so as to read as follows:

32. Every person convicted of the crime of burglary or ac-
cessory thereto before the fact shall restore the thing taken to
the owner thereof, or shall pay him the full value thereof, and
be sentenced to imprisonment in jail or in the Maryland House
of Correction or in the Maryland Penitentiary for not more
than twenty years.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from and after June 1, 1924, and apply to all burglar-
ies committed on or after June 1, 1924, but shall have no
effect as to any burglary committed prior to that date, which
prior cases shall be prosecuted and punished under the pre-
existing law, and this Act shall not be construed to repeal or
in any wise alter or amend the law in reference to burglary
with explosives.

Approved April 9, 1924.