ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 919

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 249, 250 and 251 of Article 43 of Bagby's
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland be, and the same are
hereby repealed.

Approved April 9, 1924.

CHAPTER 338.

AN ACT to repeal section 173 of the Acts of 1886, Chapter 184,
one of the Public Laws of the City of Baltimore and Codi-
fied as Section 316 in the Revised Charter of Baltimore City
1915, as amended by Chapter 625 of the Acts of 1916 relat-
ing to appeals from Baltimore City and to re-enact the same
with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 173 of the Acts of 1886, Chapter 184, Codified
in the Revised Charter of Baltimore City as Section 316, as
amended by Chapter 625 of the Acts of 1916, be and. the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments, so as
to read as follows:

''Bills of Exceptions may be signed in any cause pending in
any of said courts, at any time within the period that the par-
ties, or any of them, shall have the right to file an appeal from
the rendition of the verdict by the jury or the findings of the
court upon the issue of fact in said cause; and upon filing the
order for such an appeal, the time for signing said Bills of
Exceptions shall thereby be further extended until twenty
days before the period within which it is required that
the record shall be transmitted to the Court of Appeals; pro-
vided that the party appealing, or his counsel, shall sub-
mit the bills of exceptions to the appellee, or his counsel, not
less than thirty-five days prior to the time that the record
must be filed in the Court of Appeals, for the purpose of amend-
ments or additions to the said Bills of Exceptions, and the
appellee, or his counsel, within ten days after said Bills
of Exceptions shall have been submitted to him, shall re-
turn said Bills of Exceptions to the appellant, or his counsel,
with such amendments or additions as he may desire. And up-
on his failure to return said Bills of Exceptions within said time,
the Bills of Exceptions shall be signed by the Court, as originally
prepared by the appellant, or his counsel. If the said appellee,
or his counsel, shall return the said Bills of Exceptions to the