LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1809.

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any ticket, number or chance, or part or share of any ticket,

number or chance, in any lottery whatever, other than a com-
plete and bona fide sale of a ticket or tickets, or parts of shares
of tickets, in lotteries authorized by the laws of this state, every
person so offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of thirty dol-
lars for each and every offence, one-half to the use of the
informer, and the other half to the use of the county in which
the offence shall be committed, to be recovered by warrant
before a justice of the peace, in the same manner as small debts
are or shall be recovered.

CHAPTER 160.

A further additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT,* entitled, an Act to direct
Descents.
Repealed by 1820, ch. 191.

CHAPTER 164.

*1786, ch.
45.

A further SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an Act for quieting Posses-
sions, and securing and confirming the Estates of Purchasers.
See note to 1715, ch. 47, ante page 35.

*1807, ch,
52.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That all deeds heretofore made for conveying or passing any
estate of inheritance or freehold, or declaring or limiting any
use or uses, trust or trusts, or for conveying any estate for above
seven years, and acknowledged before two justices of the
peace of any county in this state in which the acknowledg-
ment is made, shall, notwithstanding the same may have been
acknowledged neither in the county where the lands lie, nor
where the grantor or grantors resides, have the same effect and
validity as if such deeds had been acknowledged before any
judge of the late general court, or before a judge of the county
or district court where the lands lie, or the grantor or grantors

Acknow-
ledgment of
deeds in
the county
where land
lies, or
grantor re-
sides, not
necessary.

reside ; Provided, it shall appear, in cases of feme covert gran-
tors, that the same was made willingly, and out of the presence
and hearing of the husband, or privately and willingly out of
the hearing of the husband, or words to that effect ; And pro-
vided also, that in every other respect the said deeds have been
executed, acknowledged and recorded, agreeably to the laws
heretofore made on this subject.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That nothing contained in the said
original act, or the supplements thereto, shall extend, or be con-
strued to extend, to make valid any deed, where the person or
persons who would have been entitled to the property contained
in such deed of conveyance, in case the same had originally
been valid and effectual to convey the property expressed in the
same, shall have given up his, her or their interest in the same,
and where the person or persons entitled to such property, inde-

Certain
deeds not
within the
operation of
the original
act and its
supple-
ments.