164 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 139

"Distress for Rent", excepting Worcester, Wicomico,
Howard, Washington, Carroll, Dorchester, Gar-
rett, Charles, Montgomery, Frederick, Caroline, Anne
Arundel, St. Mary's and Calvert Counties from the pro-
visions of said section.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 27 of Article 53 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Landlord and
Tenant", sub-title "Distress for Rent", be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments to read as fol-
lows:

27. In all cases of any demise or agreement for rental,
express or implied, verbal or written, hereafter to be made
of lands or tenements, whether real estate or chattels real,
within the State of Maryland, except in Prince George's,
Worcester, Wicomico, Howard, Washington, Carroll
Dorchester, Garrett, Charles, Montgomery, Freder-
ick, Caroline, Anne Arundel, St. Mary's and Calvert Coun-
ties, for less term than three calendar months, the remedy
of distress for rent due be and the same is hereby taken
away and altogether superseded. Provided that Sections
28 through 33 shall apply to Baltimore City and all of the
counties, except Allegany County, and further, provided
that in those counties in which Police Officers have the
authority to serve civil summons, the said Police Officers
may act under said Sections in the same capacity as con-
stables.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1st, 1941.

Approved April 15, 1941.

CHAPTER 139.
(Senate Bill 177)

AN ACT to authorize and direct the County Commissioners
of Garrett County to borrow upon the faith and credit
of said County forty thousand dollars ($40, 000) and to
issue a note or notes therefor, to authorize the expendi-
ture of the proceeds thereof for the purpose of building
and equipping an auditorium to the school at Accident
and for the erection of a one-room frame building at
Hutton, to provide for the levying of taxes to repay