1300 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 544

immediate preservation of the public health and safety, and
having been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-
fifths of all of the members elected to each of the two Houses
of the General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 29, 1949.

CHAPTER 544
(House Bill 308)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 27
of Article 53 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1947
Supplement), title "Landlord and Tenant", sub-title "Dis-
tress for Rent", relating to rental agreements in Allegany
County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, "by tine General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 27 of Article 53 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1947 Supplement), title "Landlord and Tenant",
sub-title "Distress for Rent", be and the same is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

27. In all cases of any demise or agreement for rental,
express^ or implied, verbal or written, hereafter to be made
of lands or tenements, whether real estate or chattels real,
within the State of Maryland, except in Prince George's,
Worcester, Wicomico, Howard, Washington. Carroll, Dor-
chester, Garrett, Charles, Montgomery, Frederick, Caroline,
Anne Arundel, St. Mary's, Allegany, and Calvert Counties, for
less term than three calendar months, the remedy of distress
for rent due be and the same is hereby taken away and
altogether superseded. Provided that Sections 28 through 33
shall apply to Baltimore City and all of the counties, except
Allegany County, and further provided that in those counties
in which Police Officers have the authority to serve civil
summons, the said Police Officers may act under said sections
in the same capacity as constables.

SEC. 2. And T&e it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1949.

Approved April 29, 1949.