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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1792.

CHAPTER 58.
Air ACT for the prevention of Lotteries.
Supplanted by 1817, ch. 154.

CHAPTER 59.

*1791, ch.
45.

Preamble.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, An act concerning the Territory
of Columbia, and the City of Washington.
WHEREAS doubts have arisen upon the act to which this is
a supplement, whether it be essential to the validity of deeds
and other conveyances of lands in that part of the territory
of Columbia which lies within this state, that the same be
recorded in the manner prescribed by the laws of this state
before the passage of the said act ; to remove which doubts,

Certain
deeds good,
&c.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That all deeds and other conveyances of lands lying within the
said territory, and recorded agreeably to the directions and pro-
visions of the said act by the clerk appointed in the manner
therein provided for the recording of deeds within the said ter-
ritory, shall be as good, valid and sufficient, in law, for the
purposes of passing the estates therein mentioned, and for all
other purposes, as if the same were also recorded in the manner
prescribed by the laws of this state, before the passage of the
said act for the recording of deeds and other conveyances of
land within this state.

CHAPTER 63.
A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT, entitled, An act respecting the equity
jurisdiction of the County Courts.
Merged in 1814, ch. 74.

CHAPTER 71.

AN ACT for the valuation of Real and Personal Property within this state.
This act was repealed by 1797, ch, 89, sec. 44, except the 12th, 13th,
14th and 15th sections, which are here inserted.

Average
value in
Allegany.

SEC. 12. And, whereas since the last average valuation of
lands in the several counties of this state, Washington county
hath been divided, and a new county erected out of it by the
name of Allegany, and it is necessary to fix an average on the
lands in Allegany county, Be it enacted, That the average
value of the lands by the acre in Allegany county be four shil-
lings current money.

And in
Washing-
ton county,
&c.

SEC. 13. And, whereas the lands in Allegany county are
greatly inferior in value to the lands in Washington county,
and it is right and proper that the average of the whole should
not be diminished, Be it enacted, That the average value of
the lands in Washington county shall be twenty-four shillings