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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1798.

SEC. 20. The said orphans court shall not, under pretext of
incidental power, or constructive authority, exercise any juris-
diction whatever not expressly given by this act, or some other
law ; but every judgment, decree, decision or order, of the said
court, may be enforced by attachment and sequestration as
aforesaid ; and if the said judgment, decree, decision or order,
be for paying money, the property sequestrated may, at the dis-
cretion of the court, be applied to the purpose for which such
judgment, decree, decision or order, was given.

Acts
repealed.

*Feb. 1777,
ch. 7.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted. That the act of assembly for insti-
tuting orphans courts,* and every supplement or act in addition
thereto, or so much thereof as is repugnant to the provisions of
this act, shall be and are hereby repealed from the time when
the operation of this act is to commence.
Continued by 1801, and since continued by the annual continuing law.

CHAPTER 103.

*1715, ch.
47.

A further additional SUPPLEMENTARY ACT to the act,* entitled, an Act for
quieting possessions, enrolling conveyances, and securing the estates of
purchasers.

Time in
which
deeds are
to be ac-
knowledged
&c.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That all
and every deed, limitation or conveyance of lands, of whatso-
ever kind or nature it may be, required by the laws of this state
to be acknowledged and recorded, executed by non-residents,
shall be acknowledged within the following time, viz. if made
by a person or persons residents without the United States, it
shall and may be acknowledged in the manner and form as set
forth in the original act to which this is a supplement within
eighteen months after the time of execution of such deed, limi-
tation or conveyance ; if executed by a resident without the
state of Maryland, but within the United States, the same shall
be acknowledged within six months after the time of execution.
See notes to the original act, ante page 35.

CHAPTER 106.

AN ACT respecting Writs of Habeas Corpus.
Merged in 1809, ch. 125, and its supplements.

CHAPTER 108.

Preamble.

AN ACT declaring what shall be evidence in certain cases therein mentioned.
WHEREAS copies of the proceedings of the governor and
council, or of the treasury, or of the office of the auditor, are not
receivable as evidence : And whereas it is inexpedient that civil
officers of government should be frequently obliged to leave their
offices and attend to give evidence of matters relating to their
offices ;
SEC. 2. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That a copy of any of the books, papers, entries or proceedings,