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ACTS JUDICIAL AND
        OFFICIAL
 

    before a justice or register, in order to have them recorded,
— If made by non residents, to be certified and the
seal of office to be annexed,
    Where persons conveying lands, &c. shall be out
of the state, the acknowledgment may be in the manner
heretofore provided by law or by letter of attorney,
— Manner of proof thereof,
— To be recorded with the deed,
    All deeds heretofore made for any estate, &c. acknowledged
by femes covert, wherein it appears by the
certificate that the same were made agreeably to law,
or according to the act of assembly, or words to that
effect, though it does not appear that the same were
made by such femes covert on private examination, or
out of the presence or hearing of their husbands, declared
valid, &c.
— Not to affect the decision of any suit then depending,
or any case wherein judgment had been obtained,
or where a person, having executed such defective deed,
or those claiming under him, were then in possession
of the property,
— When it shall appear that there has been surprise,
or mistake, or fraud in obtaining such deed or acknowledgment,
this law shall not operate to make good
such deed,
    Receipts, final discharges, &c. to trustees, to be recorded,
if acknowledged before a mayor, notary public,
or justice of the peace,
— How to be certified from another state,
    Acknowledgment of contracts for hiring or renting
stoves to be made before a justice of the peace and recorded,
to exempt such stoves from execution and distress.
    Bills of sale of servants or slaves as therein mentioned,
to be acknowledged before a justice of the peace,
    The mayor of the city of Annapolis may take the
acknowledgment of any deed or instrument of writing,
&c. which shall have the same effect as if taken by any
one or two justices of the peace of Anne Arundel county,

    Punishment for forging,
    Acquittances to executors, administrators and guardians,
and to trustees appointed by the chancellor or
the county courts, acknowledged as therein severally
directed, to be recorded,
— How to be verified, if the trustee resides in a different
state,
— Copies under seal to be admitted as evidence,

    The party injured not deprived of his civil action by
issuing an execution against the property of a convicted
person where reparation has been adjudged,
    No officer, &c. of the militia, in his attendance at, going
to, or returning from muster, shall be subject to arrest
for any civil matter,
    A joint administrator, having the powers of the other
revoked, to have remedy by action also,
    For other matters, see Continuances.  County Courts.
Limitation.  Pleas.

    Acts judicial of the county courts, and official of
justices thereof, since the 30th of November then last,
to be valid, &c.
    The official acts of magistrates, while holding an
office under the United States, to have the same effect
as if they had not held such office,