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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1813.

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 some one of the
judicial districts of this state, or such letter of attorney may be
proved as aforesaid before the governor or chief magistrate,
mayor of some corporation, or notary public, a court of justice,
or judge or justice thereof, of the state, place or country where
any such letter of attorney shall have been executed ; and if
the same shall be proved before a governor or chief magistrate,
mayor, notary public, court of justice, or judge or justice
thereof, of the state, place or country, where the same shall
have been executed, then the said oath or affirmation, (as the
case may be,) shall be certified under the hand of the governor
or chief magistrate, and the seal of the state, place or country,
when taken before a governor or chief magistrate ; or under the
hand of the mayor, and seal of the corporation, when taken
before a mayor; or under the notarial seal when taken before a
notary public ; or under the seal of the court of justice, when
taken before a court ; or under the hand of the judge or justice,
and the seal of the court of which he is judge or justice,
when taken before a judge or justice ; which said letter of
attorney i so proved, shall be deemed, adjudged and taken, as
good and sufficient evidence of the execution thereof, to autho-
rize the county court of the county where the land or estate
intended to be conveyed, or the use thereof limited or declared,
doth lie, or two justices of the peace of such county, or any
one of the judges of some one of the judicial districts of this
state, to take the acknowledgment of any such deed or convey-
ance in virtue of such letter of attorney.

Letters of
attorney,
&c. to be
recorded.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the letter of attorney in virtue
of which any such deed or conveyance shall be acknowledged,
and the proof of its execution shall, together with the deed or
conveyance, be recorded either in the records of the court of
appeals of the shore, or of the county court of the county where
the land or estate intended to be conveyed, or the use thereof
limited or declared, doth lie, within the time prescribed by the
act, entitled, a further additional supplementary act to the act to
which this is also a further additional supplementary act, passed
at November session, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-

*Ch. 103.

right.*

Deeds for
lands lying
in two
counties,
shall be
lawful
when re-
corded in
one.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That whenever any deed or deeds
of conveyance for lands lying partly in one county, and partly
in another, have been duly recorded in one of said counties,
such deed or deeds of conveyance shall have the same force,
operation and effect, as if the same had been recorded in both
said counties within the time prescribed by law ; Provided,
that nothing herein contained shall have any force or operation