974 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 799

connection with payment of checks or drafts against
bank accounts and payment of a check or other instru-
ment presented more than six months after date.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That a new section be and it is hereby added to Article 13
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title
"Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes, " sub-title
"Chapter XVII—Promissory Notes and Checks, " said new
section to be known as Section 209, to follow immediately
after Section 208 of said Article, and to read as follows:

209. (a). No revocation, countermand or stop-payment
order relating to the payment of any check or draft against
an account of a depositor in any bank or trust company
doing business in this State shall remain in effect for
more than six months after the service thereof on the
bank, unless the same be renewed, which renewals shall
be in writing and which renewals shall be in effect for not
more than six months from date of service thereof on
the bank or trust company, but such renewals may be
made from time to time.

(b). No notice affecting a check upon which revocation,
countermand or stop-payment order has been made at the
time of the taking effect of this Act shall be deemed to
continue for a period of more than six months thereafter.

(c). Where a check or other instrument, payable on de-
mand at any bank or trust company doing business in this
state, is presented for payment more than six months after
date, such bank or trust company may, unless expressly
instructed by the drawer or maker to pay the same, refuse
payment thereof, and no liability thereby be incurred to
the drawer or maker for dishonoring the instrument or
check by non payment.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1945.

Approved April 27, 1945.

CHAPTER 799.

(Senate Bill 524)

AN ACT to add twenty-four new sections to Article 33 of
Flack's Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition),
title "Elections, " sub-title "Primary Elections, " to fol-
low immediately after Section 239, and the said new
sections to be sub-titled "Voting by Mail in Municipal
Primary Elections in Baltimore City, " providing under