LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1834.

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Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That where any attaehntent as
aforesaid shall hereafter be levied or laid upon any lands, tene-
ments, hereditaments, goods, or chattels or credits, of a non-re-
sident, defendant or defendants, no conveyance, transfer, or
assignment of any such lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods,
or chattels or credits, shall have any effect against such attach-
ment unless the same shall have been recorded in the office of
the cletk of the county in which such attachment shall have
issued, before the time of such issuing.

Sale or as-
signments
not valid.

Unless re-
corded.

CHAPTER 80.

A further additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT,* entitled, an Act for Quieting
Possessions, Enrolling Conveyances, and Securing the Estates of Pur-
chasers.
Supplement, 1835, ch. 211.

*1715, ch.
47.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
all deeds or instruments of writing, which have been taken,
executed and acknowledged, within this state, since the first
day of September eighteen hundred and thirty-two, which may
not have been certified by the takers of the acknowledgments of
said deeds or instruments of writing, as required by the act of
December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, chapter
two hundred and five, be and the same are hereby confirmed
and made valid, to all intents and purposes; Provided, that in
all other respects the said deeds or instruments of writing have
been executed, acknowledged and recorded in conformity with
the laws relating to the subject at that time in force in this state.

Deed con-
firmed.

CHAPTER 83.
AN Act relating to the Trial of Ejectment Causes in this State.

WHEREAS, under the laws of this state, the citizen can only
be sued, in the first instance, in the county in which he resides;
but this provision has never been fully applied to the trial oi
actions of ejectment for lands lying partly in one county and
partly in another ; wherefore,

Preamble.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland
That after the passage of this act, none of the courts of this
state shall entertain or try any action of ejectment, for the reco-
very of the possession of any tract of land lying partly in one
county and partly in another, being entirely in possession of a
citizen residing in one of said counties, unless the said suit is
brought in the county in which said citizen resides.

Where to
be tried.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in actions of ejectment thus
brought, the court of the county in which said citizen claiming
the whole of said lands resides, may have jurisdiction to hear
and determine said suit in reference to the title of (he whole of

Authority to
decide, &c.