ADOPTED BY THE CENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND
MARCH 14, 1888.

Including also the Acts of the Session of 1888 incorporated
therein, and prefaced with the Constitution of the State.

VOLUME I,

CONTAINING ARTICLE 1, RULES OF INTERPRETATION, TO
ARTICLE 45, HUSBAND AND WIFE.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1888,

BY JOHN PRENTISS POE,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Re Dec. 17, 1894.

1888, Chapter 74.

AN ACT adopting and legalizing the Code of Public General Laws and the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, prepared by John Prentiss Poe in pursuance of the act of eighteen hundred and eighty-six, chapter three hundred and two, entitled "An act to provide for the preparation of a Code of Public General and Public Local Laws of Maryland," and declaring the same to be the Code of Public General Laws and Public Local Laws of this State; and also directing the codification of the public acts of the present session by said John Prentiss Poe, and the incorporation thereof in said Code, in a reprint thereof to be made by him, and to provide for the payment thereof, and for the sale and disposal by the State librarian of copies of the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Code of Public General Laws of this State, prepared by John Prentiss Poe and submitted to this general assembly by him, in pursuance of the act of eighteen hundred and eighty-six, chapter three hundred and two, entitled "An act to provide for the preparation of a Code of Public General and Public Local Laws of Maryland," and examined, approved and pronounced complete and correct by John W. Crisfield, Julian J. Alexander and William A. Fisher, the commission appointed by the court of appeals as authorized by the provisions of the second section of the said act of eighteen hundred and eighty-six, chapter three hundred and two, to examine and report upon the same to this general assembly, and the Code of Public Local Laws of this State, prepared by said John Prentiss Poe, and in like manner submitted by him to this general assembly, be and the same are hereby respectively approved, adopted and declared to be the Code of Public General Laws and Code of Public Local Laws of this State, respectively, in lieu of and as a substitute for all Public General Laws and Public Local Laws of this State in force on the first Wednesday of January, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight.

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