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MINATION DATE THEREOF EXCEPT IN INCREMENTS OF
NOT LESS THAN FIVE YEARS.

(15) EXCEPT AS LIMITED BY THE PROVISIONS OF SUB-
PARAGRAPH (7) (B) HEREOF, AT THE END OF THE PERIOD
COVERED BY THE AGREEMENT OR ANY EXTENSION
THEREOF, THE PROPERTY SHALL BE ASSESSED AND
TAXED WITHOUT REGARD TO THIS SUBSECTION.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby declared
to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate pres-
ervation 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 April 8, 1965.

CHAPTER 400
(House Bill 561)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 336
and 337 of Article 93 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964
Replacement Volume), title "Testamentary Law," subtitle "Widows
and Widowers," upon administration to increase a widow's allow-
ance of her husbands personal estate remaining after payment of
funeral expenses.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 336 and 337 of Article 93 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1964 Replacement Volume), title "Testamentary Law,"
subtitle "Widows and Widowers," be and they are hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

336.

In all cases where administration shall have been or shall here-
after be granted upon the estate of any married man who has left
a widow and an infant child or infant children surviving him, the
said child or children being also the child or children of the said
widow, such widow shall be entitled to an allowance of the personal
estate remaining after the payment of funeral expenses, for her own
use, and that of the said infant children, of the sum of [four hundred
and fifty dollars] one thousand dollars to be paid to her in money or
in articles of household and kitchen furniture at their appraised value,
as she may elect.

337.

If the decedent leave a widow and no infant child or children sur-
viving him, the widow shall be in like manner entitled to an allow-
ance of [two hundred and twenty-five dollars] five hundred dollars
in money or its equivalent in household and kitchen furniture, as
provided for in Section 336.