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be deemed to be the period of time beginning with the
opening of the polls and ending with the closing thereof.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all Acts, or
parts of Acts, inconsistent with this Act, be and the same
are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1935.

Approved: April 29, 1935.

CHAPTER 130.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
24 of Article 53 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924
Edition), title "Landlord and Tenant, " sub-title "Distress
for Rent, " requiring that liens for crop advances in
Charles County shall be recorded.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 24 of Article 53 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Landlord and Ten-
ant, " sub-title "Distress for Rent, " be and it is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

24. In all cases of renting land wherein a share of the
growing crop or crops shall be reserved as rent, or wherein
advances by the landlord have been made upon the faith of
the crops to be grown, said rent reserved and such ad-
vances made shall be a lien on such crop or crops, which
shall not be divested by any sale made thereof by the ten-
ant, or by any administrator of a deceased tenant, or by
the assignment of the tenant in insolvency, or by process of
law issued against the tenant; provided, that at the time
of the said renting, the contract under and by which the
said advances are made shall be reduced to writing, duly
attested and executed by the said landlord and tenant.
Provided, however, that before such advances shall be a
lien in Charles County the contract under which such ad-
vances are made shall be recorded as other liens are re-
corded and the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said county
shall record and properly index the same in a well bound
book to be used solely for that purpose. The provisions of