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The clerk so recording to have the came fees as for similar services,

and not bound to record the deed, &c. till the fees are secured —

1816, ch. 1}9, sec. 2, .

641

No deed of conveyance shall be good and available in law, unless the

same be recorded in the records of the county court where the

lands, &c. do lie, within the time required by law — 1818, ch. 104,

691

The mayor of the city of Annapolis may take the acknowledgment of

any deed or instrument of writing, as fully as if taken by any one

or two justices of the peace of Anne Arundel county — 1818, ch.

194, sec. 12.

Deeds acknowledged before the chief judge, or an associate judge of

any judicial district, to have the same effect as if acknowledged

before the chief judge, or an associate judge of the judicial district

where the lands lie or the grantors reside — 1820, ch. 172, .

736

Of corporations to be acknowledged by attorney appointed under seal

of th$ corporation — 1821, ch. 226, . .

776

Acknowledgments of conveyances before justices, specially assigned for

the city of Baltimore, to have the same effect as if taken before jus-

tices of Baltimore county — 1821, ch. 249, sec. 6.

Where the time limited for recording deeds, &c. shall expire in the

interval between the death of one clerk and the appointment of

another, it shall be the duty of the succeeding clerk to make a spe-

cial endorsement on the said deeds, &c.<and to record the same —

1822, ch. 104, ..........

781

Deeds so recorded to have the same force and effect as if recorded

within the time limited by law — 1822, ch. 104, . . .

781

The construction of mortgages limited— 1825, ch. 50,

825

See Mortgages.

Provisions for the acknowledgment of deeds of lands lying within this

state, where the grantor shall be without the state, but within the

United States— 1825, ch. 58, sec. 1, ......

826

Same where any feme covert shall be a party to the deed, or shall only

be relinquishing her right of dower — 1825, ch. 58, sec. 2,

826

Clerks of the counties directed to record deeds so acknowledged —

1825, ch. 58, sec. 3, . . . . . .

826

Deeds of conveyances of the same lands, lying in this state, to have

the preference according to the times of their recording respec-

tively, provided the deeds so to be preferred, are made bona fide,

and upon good and valuable consideration, and not to prejudice

the rights of bona fide purchasers, unless duly recorded — 1825,

ch. 203, sec. 1, ..........

858

See Mortgages.

Absolute conveyances in terms of real estate or chattels, which by any

other instrument of writing appear to be intended as a security in

nature of a mortgage, shall be considered as a mortgage, and the

person for whose benefit the same is made, shall not have the

benefit from the recording thereof, unless the writing operating as

a defeasance be also recorded — 1825, ch. 203, sec. 2, .

859