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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1822.

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or other instrument of writing, within a limited period, and the
clerk of the county court, in whose office it may be proper to
record the same, shall die or resign, or by any other means
vacate his office, whereby the period within which the said
deed, or other instrument of writing, ought to have been recorded,
shall expire during such vacancy, it shall be the duty of the
next succeeding clerk, by a special endorsement on the said
deed, or other instrument of writing, to state the day on which
the vacancy occurred, by the death or resignation of the preced-
ing clerk, or other cause, and the day on which the clerk for the
time being, commenced the duties of his office, and to record
the same deed, or other instrument, in the manner required by
law ; and all such deeds, or other instruments brought to the
said office to be recorded during the first ten days after the
clerk for the time being shall have commenced the duties of his
office, shall, when recorded, have the same force and effect, as if
recorded in the time limited by law.

CHAPTER 107.

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218.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT*, entitled, an Act concerning the Chancery
Court.

Repeal.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That so much of the act to which this is a supplement, passed
at the last session, which requires the chief judge of the third
judicial district to act in the recess of the court or out of court,
in cases in which the chancellor may have been counsel, or
have given his opinion, and on that account may conceive that
he cannot conscienciously act thereon, and shall so certify in
writing to the said chief judge, be, and the same is hereby
repealed.

CHAPTER 115.
A further SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act to prevent the incon-
veniences arising from Slaves being permitted to act as Free.
Local as to Somerset and Queen Anne's counties.

CHAPTER 128.
A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, an Act respecting certain Land
Certificates.

Preamble.

WHEREAS, by an act passed at November session, 1804,
chapter 75, it was provided that all surveys of land made in
Allegany county prior to the passage of said act, and not com-
pounded upon, should be vacated unless compounded upon by
the first day of August then next, or secured by warrant of
proclamation ; And whereas also, there has been made sundry
other large surveys in said county since the passage of said act,
and which remain uncompounded upon, and by the regulation