LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1833.

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ditions as the court shall approve, any ground or real property
or estate of such idiot, lunatic or person non compos mentis,
situate in the city of Baltimore, and further that on application
as aforesaid, and it appearing in manner aforesaid, advantageous
as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for such court, on appli-
cation as aforesaid, to authorize such trustee or trustees to

accept the surrender of any lease now existing or hereafter to
be executed of any ground or real property or estate in the city
of Baltimore, of such idiot, lunatic, or person non compos men-
tis, with a view to a new lease or leases, being ordered and
decreed in manner aforesaid, of such ground, real property, or
estate entire, or in several parcels or of any part of such ground,
real property or estate.

Or to ac-
cept surren-
der of lease,

&c.

CHAPTER 181.

AN ACT relating to Mortgages.
Supplement, 1833, ch. 283.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That where any conveyance of any freehold estate by way of
mortgage or trust, or otherwise to secure the payment of any

In case of
mortgage.

debts have been or shall be executed, and the mortgagees or
persons to whom the debts are or shall be payable, shall depart
this life or have departed the same, the receipts or acquittances
of the executors or administrators of such mortgagees or persons
aforesaid, acknowledging the full payments of such debts, and
acknowledged and recorded in manner and time as prescribed
for acknowledging and recording conveyances of lands by way
of mortgage, shall have the same force and effect as any recon-
veyances or releases to the grantors or bargainers in said con-
veyances, their heirs or assigns of said estate, and all interest
therein, would have had if executed by such mortgagees or
persons aforesaid, or the original grantees or bargainees or
holders of the legal interest and estate in said freehold under
such conveyances.

And death
of mort-
gagee.

His repre-
sentatives
may release

The residue of the act relates to mortgages in the city of Baltimore.

CHAPTER 189.

AN ACT, entitled, a further Supplement to the Act, entitled, an Act relative
to Justices of the Peace, and for other purposes, passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and fourteen.

WHEREAS, the act of eighteen hundred and fourteen, chapter
eighty-two, requires each and every justice of the peace, in
case of his resignation or removal from office, to deliver his
dockets, together with all the notes, bonds, accounts and pa-
pers, in his or their possession, appertaining to judgments or

Preamble

suits thereon, to the clerk of the county, in which such justice
resides ; And whereas , no provision is made in said law for re-

On re-ap-
pointment.