ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR.                  595

make all said settlements and/or agreements no bar to an
action for divorce.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That a new section be and it is hereby added to
Article 16 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1924 Edi-
tion), title "Chancery, "- sub-title "Divorce, " said new section
to follow immediately after Section 39 of said Article and to
be known as Section 39A, and to read as follows:

39A. Any deed or agreement made between husband and
wife respecting support, maintenance, property rights, or per-
sonal rights, or any settlement made in lieu of support, main-
tenance, property rights or personal rights shall be valid, bind-
ing and enforceable to every intent and purpose, and such deed
or agreement shall not be a bar to an action for divorce, either
a vinculo matrimonii or a mensa et thoro, as the case may be,
whether the cause for divorce existed at the time or arose prior
or subsequent to the time of the execution of said deed or
agreement, or whether at the time of making such deed or
agreement the parties were living together or apart; provided,
that whenever any such deed or agreement shall make provi-
sion for or in any manner affect the care, custody, education
or maintenance of any infant child or children of the parties
the court shall have the right to modify such deed or agree-
ment in respect to such infants as to the court may seem proper,
looking always to the best interests of such infants.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1931.

Approved April 17, 1931.

CHAPTER 221.

AN ACT to repeal Section 81 of Article 11 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), title "Banks and Trust
Companies, " sub-title "General Regulations, " said section
authorizing the Bank Commissioner to appoint attorney.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 81 of Article 11 of the Annotated