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misdemeanor and shall be fined in the amount not exceeding $1,000.00
and imprisoned for a period not exceeding 30 days or both, in the
discretion of the court. Each day of such unlawful operation shall
be considered a separate offense.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1956.

Approved March 26, 1956.

CHAPTER 91
(Senate Bill 55)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 12 and
Section 14 of Article 53 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951
Edition), title "Landlord and Tenant", sub-title "Distress for
Rent", and Section 5 of Article 20 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1951 Edition), title "Constables", sub-title "Execution of
Process and Collection of Debts", providing that no appraisal of
property distrained shall be made when the distress is for money
rent.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 12 and Section 14 of Article 53 of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Landlord and Tenant", sub-title
"Distress for Rent", be and is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, and to read as follows:

12. Where the distress is for grain or produce, the bailiff or
person authorized to levy said distress shall summon and cause to
be sworn two disinterested persons, whose duty it shall be, under
the said oath, to estimate the money value of the specific amount or
quantity of grain, or other produce or proportion of the crops agreed
upon as rent, and thereupon the bailiff or person aforesaid shall
proceed to levy the said distress as in ordinary cases of money rent,*
taking such estimated value to be such money rent. No such appraisal
shall be made when the distress is for money rent.

14. No sheriff, constable or bailiff in cases of distress for rent
shall summon more than two appraisers of property distrained, and
the compensation of the appraisers shall be thirty cents each, to be
recovered and paid as other costs in such cases. In distress for
money rent the sheriff, constable, or bailiff shall not summon
appraisers.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 5 of Article 20
of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Con-
stables", sub-title "Execution of Process and Collection of Debts",
be and is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, and to
read as follows:

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.