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to take in lieu thereof my dower in lands and my legal share
of the personal estate of my said wife or husband, or my legal
share of both the real and personal estate of my said wife or
husband, " If the election be of dower in lands and the legal
share of the personal estate, the said surviving husband or
widow shall take dower in lands and one-third of the surplus
personal estate (if the deceased spouse shall be survived by
descendants), and dower in lands and one-half of the surplus
personal estate (if the deceased spouse shall not be survived
by descendants) and no more. If the election be of the legal
share of both real and personal estate, the surviving husband
or wife shall take one-third of the lands, as an heir, and one-
third of the surplus personal estate (if the deceased spouse
shall be survived by descendants) and one-half of the lands,
as an heir, and one-half of the surplus personal estate (if the
deceased spouse shall not be survived by descendants) and no
more.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 224.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments. Sections 2
and 3 of Article 66 of the Annotated Code, title, "Mort-
gages. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 2 and 3 of Article 66 of the Annotated
Code, title, "Mortgages, " be and they are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, so as to read as follows:

2. No mortgage or deed in the nature of a mortgage shall
be a lien or charge on any estate or property for any other or
different principal sum or sums of money than the principal
sum or sums that shall appear on the face of such mortgage
and be specified and recited therein, and particularly, men-
tioned and expressed to be secured thereby at the time of exe-
cuting the same; and no mortgage or deed in the nature of a
mortgage shall be a lien or charge for any sum or sums of
money to be loaned or advanced after the same is executed,
except from the time said loan or advance shall be actually
made; and no mortgage to secure future loans or advances
shall be valid unless the amount or amounts of the same and
the times when they are to be made shall be specifically stated
in said mortgage; this not to apply to mortgages to indemnify