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For transmitting said reports and copies of said decrees in
accordance with the provisions of this section the Clerks of
Court shall receive no compensation.

Any clerk who shall fail to comply with the provisions of
this section shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of ten
($10) dollars for each offense.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1943.

Approved March 23, 1943.

CHAPTER 128.
(House Bill 92)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 314
of Article 93 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edi-
tion), title "Testamentary Law, " sub-title "Widows, " as said
section was amended by Chapter 142 of the Acts of 1941,
providing for election if the widow or widower be insane.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 314 of Article 93 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Testamentary Law, " sub-title
"Widows, " as said section was amended by Chapter 142 of the
Acts of 1941, be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

314. A surviving husband or widow shall be barred of his
or her right of dower in land or share in land or share in the
personal estate by any such devise or bequest, unless within
thirty days (30) after the expiration of the 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 hus-
band, 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 widow or widower be insane at the time of
election, the guardian (committee or trustee) or the Court