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CHAPTER 372. AN ACT to enable John James Jackson, an alien, to hold, inherit and transmit real estate in the State of Maryland.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That John James Jackson, now of the city of Baltimore, an alien, be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to take and receive, hold and convey all such real estate in the State of Maryland as may come to him by descent, de- vise or purchase, and that he be, and he is hereby made capable of transmitting and authorized to transmit such real estate to his heirs or devisees as fully and effectually, and in the same manner as if he were by birth a citizen of this State.	Devise or purchase.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved March 30, 1868.	In force.

CHAPTER 373. AN ACT to amend the thirty-first Section of Ar- ticle twenty-four of the Code of Public General Laws, title "Conveyancing," sub-title "Mort- gages," by adding thereto and re-enacting the same as amended.
SECTION 1. Se it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Section thirty-one of Article twenty-four, title " Conveyancing," sub-title " Mortgage," of the Code of Public General Laws, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows :	Amended.