MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                         99

ARTICLE 23

(d)    Section 164 of Article 23 of said Code (1966 Replacement
Volume), title "Corporations," subtitle "Cemetery Companies":

164.

Every burial lot, sold or conveyed in such cemetery and every crypt
sold or conveyed in any mausoleum, shall be held by the proprietors
thereof for the sole purpose of sepulture and for no other, and shall
not in any manner be subject to attachment or execution for debt or
affected by the insolvent laws of this State; but the estate of the
owner or owners in their respective lots and crypts shall [descend
as real estate to heirs] pass as property to the deceased owner's
personal representatives, may be [devised] bequeathed by will or
may be disposed of by the owner by sale with the approval of the
president and managers of the cemetery or mausoleum corporation
or of any person or corporation acting as trustee thereof.

ARTICLE 27

(e)    Section 18 of Article 27 of said Code (1967 Replacement
Volume), title "Crimes and Punishments," subtitle "Bigamy":

18.

Whosoever being married and not having obtained an annulment
or a divorce a vinculo matrimonii of said marriage, the first husband
or wife (as the case may be) being alive, shall marry any person,
shall undergo a confinement in the penitentiary for a period not less
than eighteen months nor more than nine years; provided, that
nothing herein contained shall extend to any person whose husband
or wife shall be continuously remaining beyond the seas seven years
together, or shall be absent himself or herself seven years together,
in any part within the United States or elsewhere, the one of them
not knowing the other to be living at that time; and if such offender
be a man, his first wife shall, on his conviction, be forthwith [en-
dowed of one-third part of his real estate, which she shall hold as
tenant in dower, the assignment of which shall be made as pre-
scribed by law in other cases of dower, and she shall have the like
remedy for the recovery thereof; and she shall also, on his convic-
tion, be forthwith entitled to one-third part of his personal estate, in
the same manner as if such husband had died intestate, and she had
survived him, which third part shall be divided and allotted to her in
the same manner as distribution is made of the personal estate of
intestates; and if the said offender be a man, he shall, on conviction,
forfeit his claim or title as tenant by the courtesy, and also all his
claim or title to any estate, real, personal or mixed, which he may
have in right of his first wife; and if the said offender be a woman,
she shall, on conviction, forfeit her claim to dower of the estate of
her first husband, and also her distributive share of his personal
estate, which she would be entitled to if he had died intestate, and
she had survived him.] entitled to and endowed with the same share
of his net estate, and in the same manner as if such husband had died
intestate, and she had survived him; and if the said of