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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Applicants.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That from and after the
second Monday of April next, the overseer of the poor
shall have full power to receive any applicant for ad-
mission between the times of meeting of the said trus-
tees, and at the first meeting thereafter the said appli-
cants so admitted shall be heard.

Repealed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That anything in the
original act to which this is amendatory to a supple-
ment to an act passed December session, eighteen hun-
dred and thirty, chapter one hundred and fifty-one, re-
lating to Kent county, which is contrary to or incon-
sistent with the provisions of. this act, be, and the same
is hereby repented.

In force.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect on the tenth day of April next.

CHAPTER 128.

Passed
Mar. 9, 1854.

AN ACT amendatory to the act entitled an act to in-
corporate the Mutual Fire Insurance company in Bal-
timore county, passed at December session, eighteen
hundred and forty-nine, chapter two hundred and
thirteen.

Note to be
given.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That any person making application for
insurance on personal property in this company, and
upon the application being granted or approved by the
proper officer or officers, the applicant or applicants
shall give his, her, or their note for the premium, and
pay annually in advance the interest on said note or
notes, as set forth in the by-laws of the company; and
said note or evidence of debt so given shall be a lien on
the real estate whereon the said personal properly is lo-

Proviso.

cated; Provided, however, the party applying is the
owner of the real estate, in case the party applying for
insurance is not a freeholder of the properly upon which
the personal property is located, and sought to be in-
sured, the owner of said real estate may join with the
party or parties in the note, and such note or evidence
of debt upon being delivered to the company, shall be
a lien on said real estate, as much so as if the insurance
was for the freeholder's benefit and use.