170 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 143

notice to creditors in the wife's or husband's estate, as the
case may be, he or she shall deliver or transmit to the Court
or Register of Wills where administration has been granted
a written renunciation in substantially the following form
or to the following effect:

I, A. B., widow or widower, as the case may be, of
............................. „.................., late of.................,, deceased,

do hereby renounce and quit all claim to any bequest or
devise made to me by the last will and testament of my
wife or husband, exhibited and proved according to law;
and I elect to take in lieu thereof my dower in lands and
my legal share of the personal estate of my said wife or
husband, or my legal share of both the real and personal
estate of my said wife or husband.

If the election be of dower in lands and the legal share
of the personal estate, the said surviving husband or widow
shall take dower in lands and one-third of the surplus
personal estate (if the deceased spouse shall be survived
by descendants), and dower in lands and one-half of the
surplus personal estate (if the deceased spouse shall not
be survived by descendants), and no more. If the elec-
tion be of. the legal share of both real and personal estate,
the surviving husband or wife shall take one-third of the
lands as an heir and one-third of the surplus personal
estate (if the deceased spouse shall be survived by de-
scendants); and one-half the lands as an heir, and one-half
the surplus personal estate (if the deceased spouse shall
not be survived by descendants, but shall be survived
by a father or mother); and two thousand dollars or its
equivalent in property, or any interest therein, at its
appraised value, and one-half of the residue of the lands
as an heir and one-half of the surplus personal estate re-
maining (if the deceased spouse shall not be survived by
descendants or a father or a mother, but shall be survived
by a brother or sister or a child or descendant of a brother
or sister), and no more.

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

Approved April 15, 1941.

CHAPTER 143.

(Senate Bill 256)

AN ACT to repeal Sections 55, to 71 inclusive, of Article
Eleven of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
entitled "Frederick County" sub-title "Burkittsville" as.