LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1785.

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SEC. 3. And be if enacted, 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 heredita-
ments, which have been acknowledged by the party or parties
making the same before the court, or any two justices of the
county in which the lands or estate thereby intended to be
passed did lie, and which have been enrolled in the records of
the late provincial court, or in the records of the general court,
within the time prescribed by law for enrolling such deeds, shall
be good and available in law, to all intents and purposes what-
soever, 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 in the records
of the county where the said lands and estate did lie.

Deeds
heretofore
made to be
good, &c.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That any deed or deeds for con-
veying lands, tenements and hereditaments, or passing any
interest, estate or use therein, which shall be hereafter acknow-
ledged before a judge of the general court, may be enrolled,
either in the records of the county in which the lands or estate
thereby intended to be passed may lie, or in the records of the
general court, at the election of the party taking or claiming by
such deed or deeds.

By 1818, ch. 104, deeds to be available, must be recorded in the county
where the land lies.

Deeds ac-
knowledged
before a
judge.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That any deed or deeds for con-
veying lands, tenements or hereditaments, or passing any in-
terest, estate, or use therein, which shall be hereafter acknow-
ledged before two justices of the county in which the lands or
estate thereby intended to be passed shall lie, may be enrolled,

Or before
two justices
may be
enrolled,
&c.

either in the records of said,* or in the records of the general
court, at the election of the party taking or claiming by such
deed or deeds.
See preceding note.

(* County)

SEC. 6. And, whereas it is of great importance to the tran-
quillity and quiet of the state, that the evidence concerning the
titles of land, and other real estate, should be preserved, Be it
enacted, That any deed or deeds already enrolled, or which may
be hereafter enrolled, in the records of the general court, may,
upon application of the party or parties claiming by or under
such deed or deeds, be transmitted, with a certificate aunexed
to the same, signed by the clerk, and under the seal of the said
court, of such enrolment, to the clerk of the county where the
land or estate conveyed by such deed or deeds may lie, who
shall enrol such deed or deeds, together with such certificate, in
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And may bo
transmitted,

&c.