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miums shall be placed to the credit of any existing sinking
funds established for the payment of any loans of the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the immedi-
ate preservation of the public health and safety, and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of
all of the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of
its passage.

Approved April 5, 1927.

CHAPTER 432.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 23
of Article 26 of the Code of Public General Laws, title
"Courts, " sub-title "Judgments, " so as to make the said
Section inapplicable to Prince George's County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland j That Section 23 of Article 26 of the Code of Public
General Laws, title "Courts, " sub-title "Judgments, " be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

Section 23. Upon all judgments rendered at the second
term after the defendant has been summoned, the defendant
shall be entitled to a stay of execution until the first Thursday
of the ensuing term, with the privilege of superseding the
same in the manner allowed by law at any time within two
months after the expiration of said stay and with the power
of prosecuting an appeal or suing forth a writ of error, as
authorized by law; this section not to apply to judgments
recovered in the courts of Baltimore City and Prince George's
County.

Approved April 5, 1927.