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subdivision, provided such requirements or restrictions do not
authorize the violation of the then effective zoning ordinance of the
municipality. Such requirement or restrictions shall be stated upon
the plat prior to the approval and recording thereof and shall have
the same force of law and be enforceable in the same manner and
with the same sanctions and penalties and subject to the same power
of amendment or repeal as though set out as a part of the zoning
ordinance or map of the municipality.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1961.

Approved April 24, 1961.

CHAPTER 273
(Senate Bill 224)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 12 of
Article 35 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition),
title "Evidence", sub-title "Competency of Witnesses", providing
that the provisions of this section authorizing the comparison of
disputed writings by witnesses shall be applicable in the trial of
criminal cases.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 12 of Article 35 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1957 Edition), title "Evidence", sub-title "Competency of Wit-
nesses", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, to read as follows:

12. In every suit or action at law or in equity or in any criminal
proceeding in which it may be necessary to prove the execution of
any instrument of writing whatsoever, attested by a subscribing
witness or witnesses, it shall be lawful to prove the execution of such
instrument of writing in the same manner and by the same evidence
that the same might be proved by if not attested by a subscribing
witness; but this shall not apply to the proof of the execution of any
last will and testament. Comparison of a disputed writing with any
writing proved to the satisfaction of the court to be genuine shall be
permitted to be made by witnesses, and such writings and the evi-
dence of witnesses respecting the same may be submitted to the
court and jury, or the court, as the case may be, as evidence of the
genuineness or otherwise of the writing in dispute.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1961.

Approved April 24, 1961.

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.