LAWS OF MAEYLAND.— 1836.

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CHAPTER 156.
A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, an Act concerning Crimes and
Punishments, passed at November session, eighteen hundred and nine,
chapter one hundred and thirty-eight.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act it shall not be law-
ful to shave the head of any prisoner or prisoners who are now,
or shall hereafter be confined in the Maryland penitentiary.

Shaving the
head forbid.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the several county courts of this state, and the city court of

Sentence
restricted.

Baltimore, in sentencing convicts to the penitentiary, to sentence
them for such a period as will expire between the first day of
April and the last day of August, any thing in the laws hereto-
fore passed on this subject to the contrary notwithstanding.

To expire
between
April and
August.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts con-
trary to, or inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and
the same are hereby repealed.

Repeal.

CHAPTER 191.

A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT* to regulate the Inspection of Tobacco.
WHEREAS, great and manifest injury and inconvenience are
suffered by the citizens of this state, in being prohibited from
transporting and carrying their tobacco from this state into any
other state and the District of Columbia, before the same is in-
spected, passed and marked at some public warehouse in this
state, for remedy thereof,

*1801,ch.
63.
Preamble.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
from and after the passage of this act it shall and may be lawful
for any inhabitant of this state to export or carry by land or
water any tobacco, either in hogsheads or otherwise, without the
same having been previously inspected, passed and marked at
any public warehouse, into any state of the United States, or
into the District of Columbia, any thing in the act to regulate
the inspection of tobacco, or any other act of assembly to the
contrary notwithstanding.

Exportation
without
inspection
authorized.

CHAPTER 192.

AN ACT Supplemental to an Act* for amending and reducing into System,
the Laws and Regulations concerning last Wills and Testaments, the
duties of Executors, Administrators and Guardians, and the rights of
Orphans, and other representatives of Deceased Persons.

* 1798, ch.
101.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the first day of May next, all claims for
rent in arrear against deceased persons, for which a distress may
be levied by law, after the death of the deceased, shall have
preference over all other claims against said deceased's estate,
except such as now have a preference over claims for rent in

Debt for
rent in ar-
rear to have
preference
without
requiring
distraint.