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for a continuation of such offense subsequent to the first or any
succeeding conviction.

14.    That if any clause, sentence, part or parts of this Act,
or of any section thereof, shall be held to be unconstitutional,
such unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity of the
remaining parts of this Act or of any section thereof. The
Legislature hereby declares that it would have passed the re-
maining parts of this Act or any section thereof if it had known
such clause, sentence, part or parts of or any section thereof
should be declared unconstitutional.

15.    That all Acts and parts of Acts, laws and parts of laws,
ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith or
contrary hereto be and the same are hereby repealed to the ex-
tent of such inconsistency.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety, and
being passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of
its passage.

Approved April 17, 1931.

CHAPTER 460.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments, Section 138 of
Chapter 790 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland,
Session of 1912. said section being designated as Section 208 of
Article 16 of the Public Local Laws of Maryland, title "Mont-
gomery County, " sub-title "County Treasurer" in the codi-
fication of said Public Local Laws of Maryland, edited by
Horace E. Flack, under the provisions of Chapter 193 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, Session of 1929,
so as to provide for the sale of land for the payment of de-
linquent taxes, the method of procedure to be followed by
the County Treasurer in conducting such sales; and provid-
ing that lots in sub-divisions and towns shall be sold for de-
linquent taxes due thereon and not for such taxes delinquent
on other land having the same owner.