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tion thereof, be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than
one nor more than five years.

Section 10. Any person who wilfully and maliciously at-
tempts to set fire to or attempts to burn or to aid, counsel or
procure the burning of any of the buildings or property men-
tioned in the foregoing sections, or who commits any act pre-
liminary thereto, or in furtherance thereof, shall upon con-
viction thereof, be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less
than one nor more than two years or fined not to exceed one
thousand dollars.

The placing or distributing of any flammable, explosive or
combustible material or substance, or any device in any build-
ing or property mentioned in the foregoing sections in an ar-
rangement or preparation with intent to eventually wilfully
and maliciously set fire to or burn same, or to procure the set-
ting fire to or burning of same shall, for the purposes of this
Act constitute an attempt to burn such building or property.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all Acts or parts
of Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland which may in
any wise conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby
repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect on and after the first day of June, in the year nineteen
hundred and twenty-nine.

Approved April 11_? 1929.

CHAPTER 256.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section
179A of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
1924 Edition, title "Licenses, " sub-title "Motor Vehicles, "
to regulate the use of registration markers and the making
of reports by automobile dealers.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 179A of Article 56 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, 1924 Edition, title "Licenses, " sub-title
"Motor Vehicles, " be and the same hereby is repealed and re-
enacted to read as follows: