THEODORE R. MCKELDIN, GOVERNOR 775

Agents of; to repeal Sections 307, 308, 309, 310 and
329 of said Article, sub-title "Gaming"; to repeal
Sections 331 and 332 of said Article, sub-title "Graft

—Prevention of"; to repeal Section 337 of said
Article, sub-title "Health—Calves"; to repeal Section
376 of said Article, sub-title "Pharmaceutical Prepa-
rations"; to repeal Section 384 of said Article, sub-
title "Health—Salesladies, Chairs for"; to repeal Sec-
tions 390 and 391 of said Article, sub-title "Work-
shops and Factories"; to repeal Section 400 of said
Article, sub-title "Importing Convicts"; to repeal Sec-
tion 409 of said Article, sub-title "Larceny—Buoys";
to repeal Section 418 of said Article, sub-title "Larceny

—Ships"; to repeal Section 422 of said Article, sub-title
"Letters—Wrongfully Opening"; to repeal Section 481
of said Article, sub-title "Minors—Convict"; to repeal
Section 490 of said Article, sub-title "Minors—Sale of
Cigars and Tobacco to"; to repeal Sections 492 and 493
of said Article, sub-title "Minors—Telegrams, Calling
for and Delivering"; to repeal Sections 506 and 512 of
said Article, sub-title "Death Penalty"; to repeal Sec-
tions 517, 518, 519, 520 and 521 of said Article, sub-title
"Opium Joints"; to repeal Section 535 of said Article,
sub-title "Perjury"; to repeal Section 551 of said Article,
sub-title "Railroads—Obstructing"; to repeal Sections
569 and 570 of said Article, sub-title "Rivers"; to repeal
Section 636 of said Article, sub-title "Toy Balloons"; to
repeal Section 637 of said Article, sub-title "Toy
Pistols"; to repeal Sections 638, 639, 640 and 641 of said
_v Article, sub-title "Traction Engines"; to repeal Sections
654, 655, 656, 657, 658, 659, 660, 661 and 662 of said
Article, sub-title "Treason"; to repeal Sections 664, 665,
667 and 668 of said Article, sub-title "Vagrants and
Tramps"; said sections so repealed being generally obso-
lete and no longer necessary or desirable among the
criminal laws of this State.

WHEREAS, a Commission has been appointed to revise
the criminal laws of this State, in order to remove many
obsolete and out-moded provisions and to make the crim-
inal laws more orderly and more brief; and

WHEREAS, this Commission has recommended the repeal
of a series of laws presently inapplicable and not now nec-
essary; now therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 12 and 13 of Article 27 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Crimes and Pun-