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The Executive Secretary shall record the transactions of
the Commission and perform such other duties as may be or-
dered by the Commission.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1927.

Approved April 5, 1927.

CHAPTER 560.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 7 of
Article 53 of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland,
so as to provide for the making of contracts of lease, dis-
pensing with the necessity of giving notice of intention to
quit, on property located in taxing areas or incorporated
towns in Montgomery County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 7 of Article 53, of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland be and the same is hereby repealed
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 7. The provisions of the preceding sections shall
apply to all cases of tenancies from year to year, tenancies
by the month and by the week; provided, that in cases of
tenancies from year to year in the counties, a notice in writing
shall be given six months before the expiration of the current
year of the tenancy; and in monthly or weekly tenancies, a
notice in writing of one month or one week, as the case may be,
shall be so given; and the same proceedings shall apply, so far
as may be, to cases of forcible entry and detainer; and the
benefit of all such proceedings shall enure to the heirs, execu-
tors, administrators, or assigns of the owner of such estate as
the case may be. In case of removal of such proceedings under
a writ of certiorari, a sufficient record thereof shall be the orig-
inal papers with a copy of the judgment and entries by the
justice under his hand and seal. This section, so far as the
same relates to notices, shall not apply to Baltimore City.
Nothing contained in the laws relating to landlord and tenant
contracts shall be construed as preventing the parties to any
such contract, by agreement in writing, from substituting a