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other institution within this State, and any and all buildings,
appurtenances, apparatus, equipment, supplies and other prop-
erty and effects connected therewith.

(g) Any dwelling house.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1929.

Approved April 11, 1929.

CHAPTER 406.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 78
of Article 75 of the Code of Public General Laws of Mary-
land entitled "Pleadings, Practice and Process at Law. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 78 of Article 75 of the Code of Public
General Laws of Maryland, entitled "Pleadings, Practice and
Process at Law, " be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted
so as to read as follows:

78. In all cases between landlord and tenant, as often as
it shall happen that one-half year's rent shall be in arrear and
the landlord or lessor to whom the same is due hath right by
law to re-enter for the non-payment thereof, such landlord or
lessor shall and may, without any formal demand or re-entry,
serve a copy of a declaration in ejectment for the recovery of
the demised premises; or in case the same cannot be legally
served, or no tenant be in actual possession of the premises,
then he shall affix the same upon the door of any demised mes-
suage, or in case such action of ejectment shall not be for the
recovery of any messuage, then upon some notorious place of
the lands, tenements or hereditaments comprised in such dec-
laration in ejectment; and such affixing shall be deemed legal
service thereof, which service or affixing such declaration in
ejectment shall stand in the place and stead of a demand and
re-entry; and in case of judgment against the defendant for
non-appearance, if it shall be made to appear to the court
where said suit is depending, by affidavit, or be proved upon
the trial in case the defendant appears, that half a year's rent