CONVEYANCES
 

    Any two justices of the peace within their own county,
shall have the same power and authority to take the
acknowledgments of deeds for conveying property as
aforesaid, as the judges of the county courts respectively
have,
    Deeds hereafter made by feme coverts as aforesaid,
and acknowledgments of release of dower, to be effectual,
is voluntary, &c. as in the 2d section,
—Deeds thereafter acknowledged by any attorney in
fact in his own manner, to be valid, &c. as in the 2d section,
—Nothing herein contained to affect any case where
a recovery has been actually had, in opposition to any
defective deed in any court in this state, or where the
property is possessed in virtue of a compromise,
    The mayor of Frederick Town may take the acknowledgment
of any deed, &c. as fully as if taken by any
one or two justices of Frederick county,
    Any deed, conveyance, &c. to a creditor or security,
by a person, with a view of becoming an insolvent
debtor, declared an undue and improper preference
within the meaning of the act of 1805, ch. 110,
    Where the grantor shall be out of the state, the deed
may be acknowledged before commissioners,
—Or by letter of attorney in the county court,
—Or before two justices of the peace in the county,
—Or before any one of the judges of the district
where the land lies,
—Letter of attorney, how to be proved,
    County clerks, on application by the grantee, and
assent of the grantor, may issue a commission to two
or more persons, residents of the state, &c. with the
grantor, to take his acknowledgment,
—The deed, with such acknowledgement, to be returned
and recorded, and to be valid, &c.
    Feme coverts being out of the state, may acknowledge
deeds or releases of dower before commissioners,
—Or before a justice of the supreme or circuit court
of the United States,
—Or before the governor or chief magistrate, the
mayor of some corporation, court of justice, or any
judge thereof, of the state, &c. where the deed is acknowledged,
—Directions for examining the feme covert, &c. out
of the hearing of her husband, returning a certificate
thereof, &c. such certificate to bar her of her inheritance
or dower,
—County clerks may issue commissions as in section
3d, with the assent of the husband, in addition,
—Deeds so acknowledged to be recorded within the
time prescribed by the act of 1798, ch. 103,
    Nothing herein contained to prevent the execution,
&c. of deeds, according to the law in force,
    The clerks to file all written assents of grantors or
feme coverts to the issuing commissions,
    The clerks of the court of appeals directed to record
deeds or extracts as the late clerks of the general court
might have done, &c.
    Punishment for forging, embezzling or stealing
deeds,
    All deeds heretofore made conveying any estate, &c.
acknowledged before two justices of the peace of any
county, in which the acknowledgment is made, declared
valid, though acknowledged neither in the county
where the lands lie, or where the grantors reside, as
if acknowledged before a judge, &c.
    Provided that in case of feme covert grantors, it shall
appear that the same was made willingly and out of the
presence and hearing of the husband, or in words to
that effect,

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