| DEC. 1813.
CHAP. 104. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
two justices of the peace of such county, or before any one of
the judges of some one of the judicial districts of this state, or
such letter of attorney may proved as aforesaid before the governor
or chief magistrate, mayor of some corporation, or notary
public, a court of justice, or judge or justice thereof, of the state,
place or country where any such letter of attorney shall have been
executed; and if the same shall be proved before a governor or
chief magistrate, mayor, notary public, court of justice, or judge
or justice thereof, of the state, place or county, where the same
shall have been executed, then the said oath or affirmation, (as the
case may be,) shall be certified, under the hand of the governor or
chief magistrate, and the seal of the state, place or country, when
taken before a governor or chief magistrate; or under the hand of
the mayor, and seal of the corporation, when taken before a mayor;
or under the notarial seal when taken before a notary public;
or under the seal of the court of justice, when taken before a court;
or under the hand of the judge or justice, and the seal of the court
of which he is judge or justice, when taken before a judge or justice;
which said letter or attorney, so proved, shall be deemed, adjudged
and taken, as good and sufficient evidence of the execution
thereof, to authorise the county court of the county where the
land or estate intended to be conveyed, or the use thereof limited
or declared, doth lie, or two justices of the peace of such county,
or any one of the judges of some one of the judicial districts of
this state, to take the acknowledgment of any such deed or conveyance
in virtue of such letter of attorney. |
Letters of attorney
&c. to be recorded.
* Ch. 103. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the letter of attorney
in virtue
of which any such deed or conveyance shall be acknowledged, and
the proof of its execution shall, together with the deed or conveyance,
be recorded either in the records of the court of appeals of
the shore, or of the county court of the county where the land or
estate intended to be conveyed, or the use thereof limited or declared,
doth lie, within the time prescribed by this act, entitled, A
further additional supplementary act to the act to which this is also
a further additional supplementary act, passed at November
session one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight*. |
Deeds for land lying
in two counties,
shall be lawful
when recorded in
one. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That whenever any deed
or deeds of
conveyance for lands lying partly in one county, and partly in
another, have been duly recorded in one of said counties, such
deed or deeds of conveyance shall have the same force, operation
and effect, as if the same had been recorded in both said counties
within the time prescribed by law (a); Provided, that nothing herein
contained shall have any force or operation to affect any case now
depending in any court of law or equity in this state.
(a) By 1818, ch. 104, no conveyance
shall be good unless it be recorded in the
records of the county court of the county where the lands conveyed do lie,
within
the time prescribed by law. |
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Passed Jan. 17, 1814. |
CHAP. CV.
An Act for the benefit of certain Persons who emigrated into or
settled
in this State before the adoption of the Constitution
of the
United States. Lib. TH. No. 4, fol. 120.
See 1814, ch. 79. |
Emigrants before
the adoption of
the constitution of |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
all free white persons, who emigrated into, or settled within the |
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