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cution shall be made except to the persons who shall be
invited or permitted to be present at the execution, as here-
inbefore provided.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the provisions
of Sections 1 and 2 of this Act shall be applicable to war-
rants for the execution of the death penalty for crimes
committed on or after June 1, 1951, but shall not be^f ap-
plicable to cases of crimes committed prior thereto. War-
rants for the execution of the death penalty for crimes
committed prior to June 1, 1951, shall be governed by
Sections 484 and 487 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1939 Edition) and said Sections 484 and
487 shall be inapplicable to warrants for the execution of
the death penalty for crimes committed on or after June
1, 1951.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1951.

Approved April 13, 1951.

CHAPTER 286
(Senate Bill 119)

AN ACT to authorize the County Commissioners of How-
ard County, in their discretion, to borrow Seven Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($700, 000. 00) upon the faith and
credit of said Howard County for the construction and
equipping of a high school for white children at Jones-
town, in said Howard County, and to issue bonds there-
for and to levy taxes to pay the principal and interest
of such bonds.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the County Commissioners of Howard County be and
they are hereby authorized and empowered, in their dis-
cretion, to issue at one time, or from time to time, upon the
faith and credit of said County, bonds in an amount or
amounts not exceeding in the aggregate Seven Hundred

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