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she shall have recovered and be discharged in due course of law. It
shall be the duty of any board of county commissioners or the de-
partment of welfare of the City of Baltimore, before whom any such
alleged lunatic or insane person is brought for commitment under
this section, if not satisfied that such person is lunatic or insane,
as defined in Section 3, to notify the State's attorney of said county
or city, and he shall immediately thereupon bring the said question
before the circuit court for the said county or the criminal court of
Baltimore for determination in accordance with the provisions of
this section. Nothing contained in this section shall prevent the
friends of relatives of such lunatic or insane person from confining
him or her or providing for his or her comfort.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved January 28, 1957.

CHAPTER 9
(Senate Bill 50)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 43 of
Article 23A of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1956 Supple-
ment), title "Corporations—Municipal", sub-title "Home Rule",
sub-heading "Repeal of Charter", changing an incorrect cross
reference therein contained and making another correction in the
punctuation of said section.

Whereas, what is now Section 43 of Article 23A of the 1956
Supplement to the Maryland Code contains a cross reference to
Section 43 of the same Article, it being obvious that the cross refer-
ence should have been to Section 42; and

Whereas, it is desirable to correct this error in order to avoid any
misunderstandings or confusion in the application, of this law; and

Whereas, at the same time, there was another slight error in
punctuation during the codification of this section which should be
corrected; now, therefore

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 43 of Article 23A of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1956 Supplement), title "Corporations—Municipal", sub-title "Home
Rule", sub-heading "Repeal of Charter", be and it is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

43. Automatic repeal. If any municipal corporation, subject to any
of the provisions of this article, shall fail for three successive years
to file with the State Fiscal Research Bureau a comprehensive state-
ment of financial condition as required by Section 126 of article 41

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.