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wise found in such precinct where registered, the notice shall be
left at the address shown in the registry. Any voter so notified
may appear in person or by counsel. At the request of either
party, the board shall issue subpoenas to witnesses to appear at
such hearings, who shall be sworn and examined. All cases shall
be decided immediately after hearing. No voter as to whom an
application or a challenge has been made shall be removed from
the registration lists unless the application or challenge is substanti-
ated by affirmative proof. In the absence of such proof, the presump-
tion shall be that the voter as to whom the application or challenge
was made is properly registered. If the board is satisfied that the
person so challenged, omitted or dropped from the registration lists
has actually moved to another precinct within the same legislative

district in Baltimore City or within the same election district in the

counties and is presently residing within that other precinct, the
board may transfer that person to the registration list of the precinct
in which he presently resides.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this section is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the im-
mediate preservation of the public health and safety, and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of the
members elected to each of the two houses of the General Assembly,
the same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved February 16, 1959.

CHAPTER 12
(Senate Bill 17)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 119 of
Article 93 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Testamentary Law", sub-title "Debts", relating to the time
during which creditors of an estate whose claims have been
refused, must sue on their claims, and relating generally to
testamentary law in this State.

Whereas, By Chapter 554 of 1957, the General Assembly amended
Section 120 of Article 93 to reduce the time for suits by creditors
from nine to six months, but it made no change in the nine month
period mentioned in Section 119 thereof; and

Whereas, It is desirable in the interest of uniformity of laws to
amend Section 119 to change the time specified therein from nine
months to six months.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 119 of Article 93 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Testamentary Law", sub-title "Debts", be

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.