534 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 195

title "Evidence, " sub-title "Competency of Witness, " said new
section to be known as Section 4A, to follow immediately after
Section 4 of said Article, and to read as follows:

4A. No evidence in the trial of misdemeanors shall be deemed
admissible where the same shall have been procured by, through,
or in consequence of any illegal search or seizure or of any
search and seizure prohibited by the Declaration of Rights of
this State; nor shall any evidence in such cases be admissible
if procured by, through or in consequence of a search and
seizure, the effect of the admission of which would be to compel
one to give evidence against himself in a criminal case.

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

Approved April 2, 1929.

CHAPTER 195.

AN ACT to declare the sanction and consent of the General
Assembly of Maryland to the conveyance of a certain lot of
ground situate, lying and being on the south side of West
Second Street, west of North Bentz Street, in Frederick
City, Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the sanction and consent of the General As-
sembly of Maryland be, and the same is hereby declared, given
and granted to the conveyance unconditionally by the Mayor
and Aldermen of Frederick, a municipal corporation of the
State of Maryland, to the State of Maryland, of all that lot
of ground lying and being in Frederick City, on the south side
of West Second Street, west of North Bentz Street, by deed
dated May 12th. In the year nineteen hundred and twenty-
eight, and recorded among the Land Records for Frederick
County, in Liber No. 366, folio 374, which conveyance is
hereby ratified and confirmed.

Approved April 2, 1929.