LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1791.

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By 1793, ch. 58, certificates granted by the commissioners to purchasers
of lots in the said city, with acknowledgment of the payment of the whole
purchase money, and recorded agreeably to the directions of this act, shall
be sufficient to vest the legal estate, without any deed or formal conveyance

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That acknowledgments of deeds
made before a person in the manner and certified as the laws of
this state direct, or made before, and certified by, either of the
commissioners, shall be effectual ; and that no deed hereafter to
be made of or for lands within that part of the said territory
which lies within this state, shall operate as a legal conveyance,
nor shall any lease for more than seven years be effectual, unless
the deed shall have been acknowledged as aforesaid, and deli-
vered to the said clerk to be recorded within six calendar
months from the date thereof.
By November, 1792, ch. 59, deeds so recorded shall be as valid as if also
recorded in the manner prescribed by law before the passage of this act.
The residue of the law was composed of police regulations, a knowledge
of which, since the assumption of jurisdiction by the federal government,
would be now of no practical benefit.

CHAPTER 63.

AN ACT respecting the fees of the Attorney-General and his deputies on
execution in certain cases.

Acknow-
ledgments
to be
effectual,
&c.

WHEREAS it is unreasonable that the attorney-general and
his deputies should receive fees for executions issued in criminal
cases, when no fees are allowed to attorneys for executions
issued in civil cases ;

Preamble.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That no fees shall be charged or received, after the passing of
this act, by the attorney-general, or any of his deputies, for any
execution to be issued against any person, or his securities, for
any fine imposed, or to be imposed, by any court of this state,
or the costs on the prosecution.

No fees to
be charged,
&c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all such parts of an act,*
entitled, an act for the more speedy and effectual recovery of
common law fines and forfeited recognizances, as give fees to
the attorney-general, or his deputies, in the cases aforesaid, shall
be and are hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 65.

Parts of an
act repealed

*Feb. 1777,
ch. 13.

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the act,* entitled, an act to regulate Public
Ferries.

*Nov.1 781,
ch. 22.

WHEREAS doubts have arisen whether the several county
courts of this state have power to contract for the keeping
of such ferries as they may think necessary, at the county
expense;

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Preamble.