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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the County Com-
missioners of Baltimore County are authorized to have said
Code printed and published and to sell copies thereof at
such prices as to them may seem reasonable; the money re-
ceived from the sale of such copies to be paid over to the
County Treasurer of Baltimore County as a part of the
public funds of the said county.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety, and
having been passed by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-
fifths of all of the members elected to each of the two Houses
of the General Assembly of Maryland, the same shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved February 4, 1949.

CHAPTER 4
(House Bill 4)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
385 and 386 of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Mary-
land (1939 Edition), title "Crimes and Punishments", sub-
title "Kidnapping", making the crime of kidnapping a
felony, and relating generally to this offense.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 385 and 386 of Article 27 of the Anno-
tated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Crimes and
Punishments", sub-title "Kidnapping", be and they are hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read. as follows:

385. Every person, his counsellors, aiders or abettors, who
shall be convicted of the crime of kidnapping and forcibly or
fraudulently carrying or causing to be carried out of or
within this State any person, except in the case of a minor,
by a parent thereof, with intent to have such person carried
out of or within this State, or with the intent to have such
person concealed within the State or without the State, shall
be guilty of a felony and shall be sentenced to death or to
the penitentiary for not more than thirty years, in the dis-
cretion of the Court.

386. Every person, his counsellors, aiders or abettors, who
shall be convicted of kidnapping and forcibly or fraudulently