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thereof to the time of making application for such member-
ship, together with regular interest thereon.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1952.

Approved March 28, 1952.

CHAPTER 65
(House Bill 115)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
3 of Chapter 476 of the Acts of 1951, said Act enacting a
new Article 31A of the Annotated Code of Maryland
under the title "Defective Delinquents", providing for
the establishment of the Patuxent Institution for Defec-
tive Delinquents and relating generally to the detention
and care of defective delinquents, changing the effective
date of the said Chapter 476.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 3 of Chapter 476 of the Acts of
1951 be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

3. This Act shall take effect on June 1, [1952] 1954,
except that the Chief Psychiatrist and the two associate
psychiatrists of the Department of Correction shall be ap-
pointed as soon as possible after July 1 [1951] 1952, at the
salaries provided for hereinabove in this Act.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect on June 1, 1952.

Approved March 28, 1952.

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.