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be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

135. [From and after a period of one month subsequent to the
first day of April, in the year 1904,] Every association or corpora-
tion doing business in the State of Maryland employing wage-workers,
whether skilled or ordinary laborers, engaged in manual or clerical
work, in the business of mining, manufacturing, operating an elec-
tric railroad, street railway, telegraph, telephone, or express com-
pany, shall make payment in [lawful money of the United States]
cash or by check or other order drawn on a banking institution [semi-
monthly] to said employees, laborers and wage-workers, or to their
authorized agents, at their respective places of employment, at inter-
vals of not more than sixteen days in the case of wages paid semi-
monthly, and not more than fourteen days in the case of wages paid
bi-weekly. In case any said corporations or associations doing busi-
ness as aforesaid, or any of their officers, shall refuse to make pay-
ment at the times above set forth to their wage-workers, laborers or
other employees the wages due them or any of them, said association,
corporation or officer so refusing shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and be liable to indictment therefor, and, upon conviction, shall be
fined a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars for each offense.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1,1955.

Approved April 18, 1955.

CHAPTER 475
(House Bill 26)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 13 of
Article 45 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition),
title "Husband and Wife", enlarging a reference to the type of
proceeding which must be had before the spouse of an insane or
lunatic person may convey jointly owned property by his or her
separate deed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 13 of Article 45 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1951 Edition), title "Husband and Wife", be and it is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

13. Where any married man or married woman is a lunatic or
insane, and has been so found upon inquisition or has been otherwise
so adjudicated and the said finding or adjudication remains in force,
the husband or wife of such lunatic or insane person may grant and
convey by his or her separate deed, whether the same be absolute or
by way of lease or mortgage, as fully as if he or she were unmarried,

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.