678 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 547

said bailiffs the amounts that may be due them. The provisions
of this section shall not apply to Baltimore County.

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

Approved May 4, 1943.

CHAPTER 547.
(House Bill 534)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 185
of Article 48A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939
Edition), title "Insurance", sub-title "Fraternal Beneficiary
Associations". Designating who shall be beneficiaries under
fraternal contracts and adding the estate as a lawful bene-
ficiary.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 185 of Article 48A of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Insurance", sub-title "Fra-
ternal Beneficiary Associations", be and the same is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

185. BENEFICIARIES. Except as hereinafter provided, the
payment of death benefits shall be confined to wife, husband,
relative by blood to the fourth degree, estate, father-in-law,
mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, ' stepfather, step-
mother, step-children, children by legal adoption, or to a per-
son or persons dependent upon the member; provided, that if
after the issuance of the original certificate the member shall
become dependent upon an incorporated charitable institu-
tion, he shall have the privilege, with the consent of the asso-
ciation, to make such institution his beneficiary; and provided
further, that any fraternal beneficiary association authorized
to do business in this State, and which shall as to all or any
class of certificates or contracts accumulate and maintain the
assets required for the payment, of benefits upon such certifi-
cates or contracts, when valued by mortality and interest
standards which provide reserves not less than those based
upon such mortality tables and interest rates as are permitted
by the Insurance Commissioner for fraternal beneficiary as-
sociations or life insurance companies, or upon any higher
standards, may as to such class enter into such contracts with
such persons upon such showing of eligibility in such forms