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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

eighty -six, trials at the April term of said Circuit

Court of Prince George's county, for the year eigh-

teen hundred and sixty-two, by abating the interest

that has accrued upon said judgments, upon the

payment of the principal of said judgments and

costs.

In force.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1876.

CHAPTER 384.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact chapter two hun-

dred and seventy-nine of the acts passed January

session, eighteen hundred and seventy, entitled

'' an act to amend the act of Assembly of eighteen

hundred and sixty-eight, chapter two hundred

and ninety-two," adding an additional section to

article fifty-one, of the Code of Public General

Laws, under the title of "Landlord and Tenant,"

by repealing the same and re-enacting the same

as follows.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Repealed and

Maryland, That the act of Assembly of eighteen

re-enacted.

hundred and sixty-eight, chapter two hundred and

ninety-two, adding an additional section to article

fifty-one of the Code of Public General Laws, enti-

tled " Landlord and Tenants," be and the same is

hereby repealed and re-enacted as follows :

22. In all cases of renting lands, wherein a share

Be a lien.

of the growing crop or crops shall be reserved as

rent, or wherein advances by the landlord have been

made upon the faith of the crops to be grown, said

rent reserved and such advances made shall be a lien

on such crop or crops, which shall not be diverted