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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1807.

shall direct and approve, conditioned for his personal appear-
ance at such time or times as the said court, or any judge
thereof, shall direct, to answer the allegations of his creditor or
creditors, according to the provisions aforesaid, and if the said
debtor shall not enter into bond aforesaid, if required by the
county court, or any judge thereof, then such debtor shall
remain in confinement until the application, if objected to, shall
be decided upon.
SEC. 4. Merged in 1828, ch. 70.

CHAPTER 151.
AN ACT for the limitation of Appeals and Writs of Error.
Interposed a statute of limitation of three years, to judgments rendered
in the late general court.

CHAPTER 154.

*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.
See notes to the original law, ante page, 35.

How non-
residents
may ac-
knowledge
deeds, &c.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That when the person or persons making any deed or convey-
ance for conveying or declaring, or limiting any use in or for
any lands, tenements or hereditaments, lying in this state, shall
be, at the time of the execution of such deed or conveyance, out
of this state, so that the same cannot be acknowledged in the
manner deeds or conveyances are directed to be acknowledged
within this state, then and in every such case the deed or con-
veyance may be acknowledged before commissioners, as herein
after directed by this act, or by letter of attorney, in the county
court where the land or estate intended to be conveyed, or the
use thereof limited or declared, doth lie, or before two justices
of the peace of such county, or before any one of the judges of
the said judicial districts in which the said lands, tenements or
estates do lie, or in the manner heretofore prescribed by law.

How the
letter of
attorney for
acknow-
ledging a
deed by a
nonresi-
dent shall
he proved,
&c.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the letter of attorney in
virtue of which any such deed or conveyance shall be acknow-
ledged, shall be proved by the oath or affirmation, as the case
may be, of the subscribing witnesses to the same, or any of them,
before any one of the judges of some one of the judicial districts
of this state, or before the governor or chief magistrate, mayor of
some corporation, a court of justice, or judge thereof; and if the
same shall not have been proved before any one of the judges of
some one of the judicial districts of this state, but shall be
proved before a governor or chief magistrate, mayor, court of
justice, or judge thereof, then the said oath or affirmation, as the
case may be, shall be certified under the hand of the governor