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incur the penalty of two days' additional imprisonment for
every day he may so refuse, and this provision shall be in-
cluded in the sentence of the Court of justice by whom the
same may be rendered; but no prisoner shall be compelled to
perform such labor whose health is not in a condition to allow
the same, and the certificate of the physician to the jail or
other physician in said county shall be sufficient to excuse
such labor.

186D. If any officer or other person having such prisoner
in charge for the performance of such work or labor, connive
at or by his wilful neglect permit the escape of any such
prisoner, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon in-
dictment and conviction of such offense in the Circuit Court
for Kent County, be fined not less than twenty nor more than
fifty dollars, or be confined in the county jail of the county,
and be subject to the same penalty of labor, or both, in the
discretion of the Court.

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

Approved April 11, 1929.

CHAPTER 217.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 17
of Article 48-A of the Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland, title "Insurance, " sub-title "Insurance Depart-
ment, " as enacted by Chapter 492, Section 18 of the Acts of
1922, relating to the Capital Stock and Surplus of insurance
companies.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 17 of Article 48-A of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Insurance, " sub-title
"Insurance Department, " as enacted by Chapter 492, Section
18 of the Acts of 1922. be and the same is hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, so as to read as follows:

Section 17. Capital Stock and Surplus. The capital stock
of any insurance company incorporated under the laws of this