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[729]. Laws of Md., 1910, chap. 253.

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[731]. W. P. Pickett: The Negro Problem, pp. 259–84.

[732]. Kirby’s Digest, 1904, sec. 2767.

[733]. Const., 1880, art. II, sec. 1, as amended 1894.

[734]. Const., 1876, art. VII, sec. 1, as amended 1893; Revised Stat., 1908, secs. 2027 and 2146–50.

[735]. Const., 1818, art. VI, secs. 2 and 3, as amended 1897; General Stat., 1902, secs. 1593–94.

[736]. Const., 1831, art. IV, sec. 1.

[737]. Const., 1887, art. VI, sec. 1; General Stat., 1906, sec. 170.