826

LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1826.

*1715, ch.
47.

CHAPTER 58.
AN additional SUPPLEMENT to an ACT,* entitled, an Act fur Quieting
Possessions, Enrolling Conveyances, and securing the Estates of pur-
chasers.

Acknow-
ledgment of
deed.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That if any person or persons seized or possessed of, or holding
any estate or interest in any lands, tenements, or hereditaments,
lying and being within this state, shall be without this state,
and within the United States, and shall execute and acknow-
ledge a deed for the conveying of such estate or interest, or for
declaring or limiting of any use in and for the same, before
any judge of a court of record and of law of the state and
county in which such person or persons may be, or before any
judge of the supreme or circuit or district court of the United
States, and the clerk or prothonotary of such court, shall
certify upon or annex to such deed under his hand and the
seal of his office, that the judge before whom the same may be
executed and acknowledged is or was at the time of the execu-
tion and acknowledgment thereof, a judge of such court, and
such deed, shall be recorded within six calender months from
the day of its date, among the land records of the county, in
which such lands, tenements or hereditaments may be, such
deed shall be good and effectual for the purpose or purposes
therein mentioned.

Relinquish-
ing dower.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any feme covert in whom
such estate or interest may be, shall be a party with her
husband executing such deed, (or shall only be relinquishing
her right of dower in or to such estate or interest,) and the
judge of such court aforesaid, before whom the same may be
executed and acknowledged, shall examine her out of the
presence and hearing of her husband, whether she doth make
her acknowledgment of the same voluntarily, and without
being induced to do so by fear or threats of, or ill usage by
her husband, or by fear of his displeasure, or to that effect ; and
the said judge shall endorse upon or annex thereto his certificate
of such examination and acknowledgment ; and such clerk or
prothonotary shall certify as aforesaid ; and such deed shall be
recorded as aforesaid, the same shall be good and available for
the purposes therein mentioned, and thereby intended.

Recording.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the clerks of the several
county courts of this state are hereby authorized to record any
deed or conveyance executed and authenticated agreeably to
the provisions of this act, in the same manner, and under the
same restrictions as they are authorized to record deeds or con-
veyances executed and acknowledged within this state.