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than seven years contains an option or options of renewal
entitling any party to said lease to extend the total dura-
tion thereof to a period of more than seven years from the
original date of the initial term, this section shall apply,
but no provision for a renewal, automatic or otherwise, in
a lease shall make this section applicable if it may be termi-
nated by either party within seven years after the original
date of the initial term. All such deeds shall be ac-
knowledged before some one of the officers named in sections
three, four, five and six of this article, and any unmarried
woman between the age of eighteen years and twenty-one
years, shall have power to make a deed of trust of her prop-
erty, real, personal or mixed; provided, the same shall be
approved and sanctioned by a court having equity jurisdic-
tion in the city or county where the grantor resides, upon the
petition of said grantor, and such proof as the said court in
its discretion may require.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take

effect June 1, 1949.

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Approved April 29, 1949.

CHAPTER 508
(House Bill 41)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
109 of Article 93 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939
Edition), title "Testamentary Law", sub-title "Debts", in-
creasing the amount which an executor or administrator
may recover from a tortfeasor for the funeral expenses of
the decedent.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 109 of Article 93 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Testamentary Law", sub-
title "Debts", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

109. Executors and Administrators shall have full power
to commence and prosecute any personal action whatever, at
law or in equity, which the testator or intestate might have
commenced and prosecuted, except actions of slander, pro-
vided, that if the death of the testator or intestate shall have
resulted from the wrong for which any such personal action
might have been commenced, then the Executor or Adminis-