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of said ordinance. If said certificates are issued in series ma-
turing at stated periods, and a proportion of the principal is
made payable annually, the Mayor and City Council of Bal-
timore shall annually raise by taxation the amount of money
required to meet the interest and the proportion of the prin-
cipal payable in said year. If said certificates are not issued
in series, any premiums realized above the par value of the
whole amount of said certificates shall constitute a part of the
sinking fund created for the purpose of paying the loan herein
authorized; if said certificates of indebtedness are issued in
series, such premiums shall be placed to the credit of any ex-
isting sinking funds established for. the payment of any loans
of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 223.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 302
of Article 93 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, title
"Testamentary Law, " sub-title "Widows, " as repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, by Chapter 348 of the Acts of
the General Assembly of Maryland of 1922.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 302 of Article 93 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Testamentary Law, " sub-title "Widows, " as
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, by Chapter 348 of
the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1922, be
and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, so as to read as follows:

Section 302. A surviving husband or widow shall be barred
of his or her right of dower in land or share in land or share
in the personal estate by any such devise or bequest, unless
within six months after the first grant of letters testamentary
upon the wife's or husband's will, as the ease may be, he or
she shall deliver or transmit to the Court or Register of Wills
where administration lias been granted a written renunciation
in substantially the following form or to the following effect:

"I, A. B., widow or widower, as the case may be, of
.................... late of................... deceased.

do hereby renounce and quit all claim to any bequest or de-
vise made to me by the last will and testament of my wife or
husband, exhibited and proved according to law: and I elect