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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1797.

And in cer-
tain cases
to bave the
same reme-
dy, &c.

body of the person against whom process may have been issued,
shall satisfy the plaintiff the amount of his debt and costs, he
shall have the same remedy against the defendant on the plain-
tiff's judgment against him as the plaintiff himself might origi-
nally have had.

CHAPTER 96.

An ACT respecting the stealing and counterfeiting of Checks or orders on
Banks.
Merged in 1809, ch. 138.

CHAPTER 103.

AN ACT respecting the acknowledgment of Deeds.
See 1715, ch. 47, and the notes thereunder, ante page 35.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, by the acts heretofore passed for the enrolment
and acknowledgment of deeds, no particular form for certifying
the said acknowledgment by the person or persons who should
take the same, is designated or prescribed, and in many in-
stances the judge or justices before whom the said acknowledg-
ments have been made, have certified the same very inaccu-
rately, whereby it is apprehended the validity of such deeds
may be questioned, contrary to the intention of the parties who
executed the same,

Certain
deeds good,
&c.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That in all cases where an acknowledgment of a deed hath
been made before any person or persons competent by law to
receive such acknowledgment, and the said person or persons,
receiving such acknowledgment, hath or have certified, by
endorsement on said deed, that the grantor, bargainer or vendor,
mentioned in the said deed, acknowledged the lands and tene-
ments therein mentioned, to be the right or title of the grantee,
bargainee or vendee, or hath or have certified any acknowledg-
ment tantamount thereto, or endorsed any certificate in any
words declaratory of the intention of the grantor, bargainer or
vendor, to pass or convey the property in said deed mentioned
unto such grantee, bargainee or vendee, such deeds shall be as
good and available in law against such grantors, bargainors or
vendors, their heirs, executors and administrators, as if the
person or persons receiving such acknowledgment had certified
that the grantor, bargainer or vendor, had acknowledged the
said instrument in writing to be his, her or their act and deed,
any law, usage or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.

Acknow-
ledgments
to be good,
&c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That in all cases hereafter, where
any person or persons, competent by the laws of this state to
receive the acknowledgment of deeds, shall certify, by endorse-
ment on said deed, that the donor, grantor or bargainer, in any