1008 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 315

CHAPTER 315
(Senate Bill 305)

AN ACT legalizing the Annotated Code of Maryland, Edi-
tion of 1951, edited by Horace E. Flack, and making it
evidence of the law.

WHEREAS, a new edition, to be known as the edition of
1951, of the Annotated Code of Maryland, has been pre-
pared by Horace E. Flack and is now ready for publica-
tion; and

WHEREAS, the said new edition includes all of the stat-
utes still in force contained in the 1939 Edition of the An-
notated Code, legalized and made evidence of the law by
Chapter 418 of the Acts of 1939, and all of the statutes
still in force contained in the 1947 Cumulative Supplement
to the Annotated Code, legalized and made evidence of the
law by Chapter 619 of the Acts of 1947, and all of the
Public General Laws still in force contained in the Acts of
the General Assembly passed subsequent to the 1947
Cumulative Supplement to the Annotated Code, to wit, the
Acts of the General Assembly of the Extraordinary Ses-
sion of 1948, the Acts of the Regular and Extraordinary
Sessions of 1949 and the Acts of the Regular and July and
November Extraordinary Sessions of 1950; therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the Annotated Code of Maryland, Edition of 1951,
edited by Horace E. Flack, be and the same is hereby
legalized and shall be deemed and taken in all the courts
of the State, and by all public officials of the State, to be
evidence of the Public General Laws of the State con-
tained in the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland of
1888 and the Public General Laws enacted subsequent
thereto; provided that before said Edition of 1951 is pub-
lished, the Public General Laws enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland at its Session of 1951 shall be in-
corporated therein.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1951.

Approved April 13, 1951.

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EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.