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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1825.

* 1809, ch.
168.

CHAPTER 160.
A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT,* entitled, an Act to make the final discharge of
Executors, Administrators and Guardians, matter of record.
Supplements, 1829, ch. 216 ; 1831, ch. 305.

Powers of
attorney to
be recorded.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act, all powers oi attor-
ney from any heir, representative or legatee of full age, or other
person authorized to execute the same, which has been or
shall be hereafter acknowledged before any justice of the peace
of this state, and which said justice of the peace shall be certi-
fied to be a justice of the peace by the clerk of the county court
of the county of which he is a justice of the peace under the
seal of the said court, or before any judge of any court of record
in this state, or of either of the other United States or the territo-
ries thereof, which said judge shall be certified to be a judge of
such court, by the clerk of said court, under the seal thereof,
and any receipt, acquittance, release or final discharge made in
pursuance of the authority granted by such power of attorney,
to any guardian, executor or administrator, which said receipt,
acquittance, release or final discharge, shall have been or may
be hereafter acknowledged before any justice of the peace of the
city or county, or before the register of wills of the county,
where such guardian was appointed, or such executor or admi-
nistrator obtained letters testamentary or of administration, may
be recorded; and it shall be the duty of such register to record
any such power of attorney, receipt, acquittance, release or final
discharge produced to be recorded, in a well bound book, to be
kept for that purpose : Provided nevertheless, that no such
power of attorney, receipt, acquittance, release or final discharge
shall be recorded unless the justices of the court wherein it is
desired to record the same, shall in the first instance approve of
and direct the recording thereof.

Office copy
sufficient
evidence.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That a copy of any such power of
attorney, receipt, acquittance, release or final discharge, acknow-
ledged and recorded as aforesaid, duly attested under the seal of
the office in which the same is recorded, shall at all times here-
after be admitted as evidence to prove such power of attorney,
receipt, acquittance, release or final discharge.

Fee.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the registers of wills may
ask, demand and receive, such fee for recording the same, as is
allowed by law in other cases of a similar nature.

CHAPTER 161.

* 1796, ch.
67. '

AN additional SUPPLEMENT to the ACT* relating to Negroes, and to repeal
the Acts of Assembly therein mentioned.
SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That from and after the passage of this act it shall be the duty