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after term at every successive term as aforesaid, and it shall be
lawful for any of the parties after the dismissal, and the conti-
nuances entered as aforesaid, to make such suggestion and such
consequent change of parties, as by the circumstances and na-
ture of the cases and causes of action respectively, according to
the existing law, may be proper.

CHAPTER 205.
A further additional SUPPLEMENT to an Act,* entitled, an Act for Quiet-
ing Possessions, Enrolling Conveyances, and Securing the Estates of
Purchasers.
See notes to the original law, ante page 35.

*1715, ch.
47.

WHEREAS, doubts have arisen as to the true construction of
an act, passed on the twenty-third day of February last, enti-
tled, an additional supplement to an act, entitled, an act for
quieting possessions, enrolling conveyances, and securing the

Preamble.

estates of purchasers, [*] December session eighteen hundred
and thirty, chapter one hundred and sixty-four; And whereas,
the language of the third and fourth sections of the said act is
such, as to render questionable the power of sundry tribunals
and persons to take the acknowledgments of femes coverts, who
before the passage of that act had undoubtedly such power, a
circumstance which may lead to mistakes and litigation; And
whereas, both the said act, and another act of the same title,
passed at December session, eighteen hundred and twenty-five,
chapter fifty-eight, set out a form of acknowledgment for femes
covert ; And whereas, the said acts may be construed to repeal
the acts of eighteen hundred and seven, chapter fifty-two, sec-
tion four, and eighteen hundred and eight, chapter seventy-
three, which give a greater latitude as to the form of acknow-
ledgments, from which cause errors and litigations may also
arise; And whereas, the security of titles requires that the
benefit of recording be further extended ; therefore,

(*passed
at)

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That all deeds heretofore made, or hereafter to be made, which
have been or shall be executed and acknowledged by any feme
covert, in the manner pointed out in the third section of the
said act of December session, eighteen hundred and thirty, be-
fore any governor, chief magistrate, judge, court of justice,
mayor, commissioners, or other tribunal, or person or persons,
who by any law of this state in force at the time of passing the
said act, or by the first or second sections of the said act, was
or were authorized and empowered to take the acknowledg-
ment of such feme covert, or of her husband, to such deed,
shall be as valid and effectual, as if the same had been executed
and acknowledged before any of the judges or justices men-

Deeds in
certain
cases con-
firmed.

tioned in the third or fourth sections of the said act; Provided,

Proviso.