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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1881.

CHAPTER 222.

AN ACT to relinquish the right of the State to certain Lands therein
mentioned.

Preamble.

WHEREAS sundry citizens of this state, have heretofore loca-
ted warrants, and obtained patents for lands included within
the lands reserved for the use of the state, lying westward of
Fort Cumberland, in Allegany county; And whereas the titles
of said patentees, and of those claiming under them! are of
doubtful validity — Therefore,

State
right re-
linquished.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the right of this state, in and to the lands lying within the said
reserve, for which patents may have at any time heretofore been
granted, and the patentees thereof and those claiming under
them, are in possession of the same respectively, be, and the
same is hereby released, and the titles of the said patentees and
of those claiming under them respectively, be, and the same are
hereby confirmed to them, their heirs and assigns.

CHAPTER 226,

AN ACT relating to the acknowledgments and effect of Deeds made by
Corporate Bodies,
See 1715, ch. 47, ante page 35.

How to be
acknow-
ledged.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That every deed which shall hereafter be made by any corpo-
rate body, for the conveyance, alienation, mortgage, release,
assignment, transfer or sale, of any lands, tenements, goods,
chattels, rights, claims or effects within this state, or of any
estate, claim or interest therein, may bo acknowledged before
the person or persons authorized by law to take the acknow-
ledgments of similar deeds made by individuals, by attorney
constituted and authorized by a clause in such deed, or by
letter of attorney under the seal of such corporate body ; and
every such deed which shall hereafter be so acknowledged and
recorded according to law, shall be deemed and construed iu
law and in equity as valid and effectual, and of as much force
in conveying, mortgaging, selling, assigning, transferring and
releasing any estate, right, title, interest or claim therein ex-
pressed, or thereby intended to be conveyed, aliened, mort-
gaged, sold, assigned, transferred or released, as if such deed
had been or were duly executed and acknowledged by any in-

(*possess-

ed)

dividual citizen of this state having or being seized, passed*
or entitled to the same estate, right, interest or claim as such
corporate body in and to such lands, tenements, goods, chattels,
rights, claims or effects, and recorded agreeably to law.