CHAPTER 160.

AN ACT to make valid deeds executed and ac-
knowledged since the first day of November,
eighteen hundred and sixty-four before the Jus-
tice of the Peace in any county in this State,
where the grantors resided or where lands are
situated.

Passed Mar.
22, 1867.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General assembly
of Maryland, That all deeds made and executed
in the State of Maryland since the first day of No-
vember, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-
four, which were executed and acknowledged be-
fore any Justice of the Peace duly commissioned
and qualified for any county in this State, and
which deeds were recorded in the county or city
where the land or real estate, in whole or in part,
is situated, shall have the same effect and opera-
tions in law, and be as valid to all intents and
purposes, as if the Justice of the Peace before
whom the same was acknowledged, was at the
time of such acknowledgement a Justice of the
Peace, duly commissioned and qualified according
to law, for the county or city in which the lands
were situated, or in which the grantors in such
deed resided, saving and reserving the rights of
creditors and bona fide purchasers without notice.

Deeds made
valid and bind-
ing.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That all deeds exe-
cuted and acknowledged by the grantors since the
first of November, eighteen hundred and sixty-four,
in the county in this State in which the grantors
then resided, before any other Justice of the Peace
of any other county in this State, duly commis-
sioned and qualified, shall be as valid to all in-
tents and purposes as if acknowledged in the
county where the lands in whole or in part
are situate, before a justice of said county, or as
if acknowledged before a Justice of the Peace of
the county in which the grantors resided, saving
and reserving the rights of creditors and bona
fide purchasers without notice.

Deeds made
valid.

Sec. .3 And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.
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In force.