ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 955

CHAPTER 494.

AN ACT to add a new and additional section to Article 16 of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924), title "Chancery, "'
sub-title "Divorce, " said new and additional section to fol-
low immediately after Section 37 of said Article 16 and to
be designated Section 37-A, the same relating to the juris-
diction of Courts of Equity in all applications for divorce
and to repeal all other laws and sections and all other parts
of laws and sections so far as the same or any of the same
may conflict or be inconsistent with the provisions of this
Act.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new and additional section be and the same
is hereby added to Article 16 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1924), title "Chancery, " sub-title "Divorce, " said new
and additional section to come immediately after Section 37
of said Article 16 and to be designated Section 37-A, and to
read as follows:

Sec. 37-A. All persons residing on property lying within
the physical boundaries of any county of this State or within
the boundaries of the City of Baltimore but on property over
which jurisdiction is exercised by the Government of the United
States by virtue of the 17th Clause, 8th Section of the First
Article of the Constitution of the United States, and Sections
31 and 32 of Article 96 of the Annotated Code of Public Laws
of Maryland (legalized by Chapter 219 of the Acts of the Gen-
eral Assembly of 1924), shall be considered as residents of the
State of Maryland and of the County or of the City of Balti-
more, as the case may be, in which the land is situate for the
purpose of jurisdiction in the Courts of Equity of this State
in all applications for divorce.

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

Approved April 5, 1927.

CHAPTER 495.

AN ACT to repeal Sections 294 and 295 of Article 27 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland, title, "Crimes and Punish-
ments, " sub-title, "Health—Schools. "