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before a court of justices; or before any judge thereof of the state, and so
forth, where the deed is acknowledged.
See 1807, ch. 55, 154, and 1813, ch. 104, how letters of attorney to make
acknowledgments, are to be proved, and commissions to take them are lo
issue.
By 1816, ch. 74, mayor of Frederick city may take acknowledgment of
deeds, in like manner that two justices of the peace may.
By 1818, ch. 104, no deed is available, unless recorded in the county
where the land lies.
By 1818, ch, 194, mayor of the city of Annapolis may take acknow-
ledgments of deeds.
By 1820, ch. 172, deeds may be acknowledged before a chief or associate
judge of the district, notwithstanding neither the party making the acknow-
ledgment, does not live, or the land does not lie, within the judicial district,
for which he may have been appointed.
By 1821, ch. 226, the mode by which deeds executed by corporations are
to be acknowledged, is pointed out.
By 1821, ch. 249, deeds may be acknowledged before justices of the
peace specially appointed for the city of Baltimore.
By 1825, ch. 58, persons without the state, and within the United Slates,
may acknowledge a deed for lands within this state, before any judge of a
court of record, or of law, of the state or county in which such person
may be; or before a judge of the supreme, circuit or district court of the
United States.
By 1830, ch. 164, deeds may be executed and acknowledged within the
United States or any territory thereof, before any judge of a court and of
law and of record of the state or territory in which the party may be at the
time, or any judge of the United States court, or in open court in any
court of record of the United States or of its territories.
By 1830, ch. 164, deeds of non-resident feme coverts, within the United
States or its territories, may be acknowledged before any judge of a court
of law and of record of the state and territory in which she may be at the
lime, or before any judge of the United States court.
By 1830, ch. 164, feme-coverts must sign and seal the deed in the presence
of the magistrate and out of that of her husband.
By 1830, ch. 164, a substituted formula of acknowledgment.
By 1831, ch. 205, the officer taking the acknowledgment must be satis-
fied of the identity of the person making the same, and return with his
acknowledgment a certificate thereof.
By 1831, ch. 304, deeds may be recorded notwithstanding they shall not
have been recorded within six months after acknowledgment.
By 1837, ch. 97, the governor may appoint a commissioner in each state
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SEC. 9. And provided always, and be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid. That when the grantor or grantors,
bargainer or bargainers, of such lands, tenements or heredita-
ments, shall live remote from either the provincial court, or
county court where the land lieth, it shall and may be lawful
for such grantor or bargainer to acknowledge the same in the
county where such bargainers live, and a certificate of such
acknowledgment, under the hand of the county clerk, and
under the seal of the same county, of such acknowledgment
shall be taken, deemed, reputed, and be as good and valid, as if |
Proviso. |
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