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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1831.

that all the other provisions of the said act shall have been
complied with, except that the acknowledgment of the feme
covert, may be either in the form set out in that allowed by the
fourth section of the act of eighteen hundred and seven, chapter
fifty- two.

Acknow-
ledgments
of feme
coverts ac-
cording to
act of 1807,
ch. 52, con-
firmed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That all deeds heretofore made,
or hereafter to be made, which have been or shall be acknow-
ledged by any feme covert, in the form pointed out and allowed
in the fourth section of an act, entitled, an act for quieting pos-
sessions, and securing and confirming the estates of purchasers,
passed at November session, eighteen hundred and seven, chap-
ter fifty- two ; shall be good and effectual, any law to the con-
trary notwithstanding ; Provided, that in all other respects, the
said deeds shall have been executed and acknowledged, and
recorded, agreeably to law, except so far as the same may be
dispensed with, by a former section of this act.

Obligation
to convey
estate, to be
recorded.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all writing obligatory, or
contracts for conveyances of lands or tenements, or of any in-
terest or estate of, in, or relating to, lands or tenements, or here-
ditaments, and all writings obligatory or contracts for the leasing
and demising, for any term of years, of lands or tenements
may, if executed and acknowledged in manner as is directed
by the acts of assembly made and provided in case of convey-
ances of lands, and as if such writings obligatory or contracts,
were conveyances as aforesaid, be recorded among the land
records of the county where such lands or tenements, or here-
ditaments shall lie, and a certified copy of the seal of the county
court of said county, of such record, shall be received as evi-
dence, as fully and to the same effect, of such writing obliga-
tory or contract, as a like copy of the record of any such con-
veyance, executed and acknowledged, and duly recorded in
manner aforesaid, would be evidence of such conveyance.

Identity of
grant to be
certified.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That in all cases of acknowledg-
ment of deeds or conveyances or writings obligatory, or con-
tracts of, or relating to lands, tenements or hereditaments, or
any right, interest, estate, or use, therein or thereof, the justices
or other officers, or courts, or tribunals, taking such acknow-
ledgment, shall, of their own knowledge, or by oral testimony,
under oath, received by them, be satisfied with the persons
acknowledging as aforesaid, are the persons who are named
and described as, and professing to be parties in said deeds,
conveyances, writings, or contracts; and from and after the first
day of September next, it shall be the duty of the takers afore-
said of said acknowledgments, to certify in their certificates of
such acknowledgments, the fact of their being so satisfied.