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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1831.

provisions in that behalf declared and made, in and by the first
section of the act, passed at December session, in the year
eighteen hundred and twenty-five, chapter two hundred and
three, entitled, an act concerning mortgages and other deeds,
except in the cases aforesaid of purchasers with notice aforesaid.

CHAPTER 305.
AN ACT for amending and reducing into system the Laws and Regula-
tions concerning Powers of Attorney from Heirs and Legatees, and of
Releases and final Discharges to Executors, Administrators and Guar-
dians.

Powers of

sttorney
from heirs,
legatees,
&c. may be
acknow-
ledged be-
fore the
mayor
of a corpo-
ration, or
notary
public.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland^
That all powers of attorney, from any person or persons, who
may have authority to execute the same, which shall be
acknowledged in this state before the mayor of a corporation,
or notary public, or before any justice of the peace in this state,
authorizing any person or persons, to ask, demand or receive
from any executor, administrator or guardian, or person who
has been such, any portion, distributive share, legacy, sum of
money or property whatsoever, or any part thereof, which is or
shall be, or ought to be in possession of any such executor,
administrator or guardian, or person who has been such, and
which shall belong to, or be in any manner due to any heir, re-
presentative, distributee, legatee, or person who has been a ward ;
and all powers of attorney, from any person or persons who may
have authority to execute the same, and which shall be acknow-
ledged as aforesaid, authorizing any person or persons to sign,
seal, make, execute or acknowledge any receipt, acquittance,
release or final discharge for any such portion, distributive

Made valid.

share, legacy, sum of money, or property as aforesaid, or any
part thereof, shall be good and sufficient evidence in any court
of this state, to prove the due execution or acknowledgment of
any such power of attorney as aforesaid, and the same may be

Maybe
recorded.

recorded in the office of the register of wills of the county in
which the administration was granted, or in which the guardian
was appointed or gave bond ; Provided, that before any such
power of attorney shall be so received in evidence, or recorded,
if it be acknowledged before a mayor of a corporation, there

Certificates
required,
however.

shall be his certificate of the fact, under the seal of such corpo-
ration, or if it be acknowledged before a notary public, there
shall be his certificate of the facts under his notarial seal ; and
if it be acknowledged before a justice of the peace, in any other
county than that in which the administration was granted, or
the guardian was appointed or gave bond, that there be also a
certificate of the clerk of the county court, of the county in
which such justice of the peace resides, under the seal of the