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LAWS OP MARYLAND.— 1785.

fied, and that as soon as the said compact shall be approved,
confirmed and ratified, by the general assembly of the com-
monwealth of Virginia, thereupon, and immediately thereafter,
every article, clause, matter and thing, in the same compact
contained, shall be obligatory on. this state and the citizens
thereof, and shall be for ever faithfully and inviolably observed
and kept by this government, and all its citizens, according to
the true intent and meaning of the said compact ; and the faith
and honour of this state is hereby solemnly pledged and en-
gaged to the general assembly of the commonwealth of Virgi-
nia, and the government and citizens thereof, that this law shall
never be repealed or altered by the legislature of this govern-
ment, without the consent of the government of Virginia.

CHAPTER 9.
AN ACT to aid conveyances of land improperly enrolled, and for other
purposes.

Preamble.

See 1715, ch. 47, ante page 35, and the notes thereon.
WHEREAS, many deeds for conveying of lands and other real
estate have been enrolled in the records of the county in which
the lands or real estate thereby intended to be passed did lie,
although such deeds had in some instances been acknowledged
before a justice of the provincial court, and in others before a
judge of the general court; and many deeds acknowledged
before the court, or any two justices of the county where the
lands and estate by such deeds intended to pass did lie, have been
enrolled in the records of the late provincial court, or in the
records of the general court ; and questions and, doubts as to the

(*May
arise.)

validity of deeds recorded as aforesaid ;* for prevention of which
doubts and questions, and to secure the titles, and quiet the
possessions of those who do and may hold or derive title under
any such deeds.

Certain
deeds good,
&c.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That all deeds heretofore made, for conveying or passing any
estate of inheritance or free-hold, or declaring or limiting any
use or uses, or for conveying any estate for above seven years
in lands, tenements or hereditaments, which have been acknow-
ledged by the party or parties making the same before a justice
of the late provincial court, or before a judge of the general
court, and which have been enrolled in the records of the
county in which the lands or estate thereby intended to be
passed did lie, within the time prescribed by law for enrolling
such deeds, shall be good and available in law, to all intents
and purposes whatsoever, to pass and convey the lands or estate
thereby intended to be passed, according to the limitations in
such deeds, in the same manner as if such deeds had been
enrolled ia the records of the provincial or general court.