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portunity to the corporation for hearing before the said Com-
mission within fifteen days from the date of such notification.
The State Tax Commission shall certify and apportion the as-
sessment entered against each of the railroads to the counties
and Baltimore City in the proportion which the mileage of
each of said railroads in each county and Baltimore City bears
to its entire mileage in the State. If any such railroad com-
pany owning, holding, hiring, using or leasing rolling stock has
part of its road in this State and part thereof in another State,
States or the District of Columbia, such company shall return
a statement of its entire mileage or whole length of its line,
and the length of its line in this State, and the following rule
shall be followed by the State Tax Commission for ascertain-
ing in such case the valuation of such rolling stock, namely, the
valuation of said rolling stock shall bear that proportion to the
total value of said rolling stock as the mileage of said railroad
in Maryland bears to the total mileage, but this proviso shall
not apply to rolling stock as is located permanently within the
limits of this State.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall be
and become effective from and after December 31, 1924, the
first returns to be made hereunder to be for the year 1925, and
all laws or sections of laws inconsistent with the provisions of
this Act are hereby expressly repealed to the extent of any in
consistency.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 294.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 69, 70, 71, 72, 73. 74, 75, 76, 77, 78,
79, 80, 81, 82, 83 and 83A of Article 43 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, title "Health, " sub-title "Midwives, "
and to enact in lieu thereof twelve new sections to be known
as Sections 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79 and 80 of
Article 43 of the Annotated Cede of Maryland, title
''Health, " sub-title "Midwives, " relating, to the practice of
midwifery and to the examination and licensure of persons
practicing midwifery.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 69, 70, 71, 72. 73, 74. 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80,
81, 82, 83 and 83A of Article 43 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland, title "Health, " sub-title "Midwives, " be and the
same are hereby repealed.