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ROBERT WRIGHT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said bond shall
be lodged in
the mayor's office of Baltimore to be there recorded, and upon such
bond, or any office copy thereof, suit or suits may be instituted
for any breach or non-compliance with the condition thereof. |
1807.
CHAP. 153.
Bond to be recorded. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That Humphrey Williams,
Doctor
Joseph Kent, Archibald Van-Horn, Leonard Sellman and Joseph
Harwood, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby appointed
commissioners to expend the money received by them in making
passable the said road from the city of Annapolis to the seat of government
of the United States, till it intersects the line of the district
of Columbia. |
Commissioners
appointed to expend
the money
raised, &c. |
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CHAP. CLIV.
A Further Additional Supplementary Act (a) to the act, entitled,
An
act for Quieting Possessions, Enrolling Conveyances,
and Securing
the Estates of Purchasers. Lib. TH. No. 1,
fol. 497.
(a) 1715, ch. 47. See other
Supplements December 1813, ch. 104; and 1816,
ch. 164. See also 1807, ch. 52, and the acts there referred to. |
Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
1. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
when the person or persons making any deed or conveyance for
conveying or declaring, or limiting any use in or for any lands,
tenements or hereditaments, lying in this state, shall be, at the
time of the execution of such deed or conveyance, out of this state,
so that the same cannot be acknowledged in the manner deeds or
conveyances are directed to be acknowledged within this state, then
and in every such case the deed or conveyance may be acknowledged
before commissioners, as herein after directed by this act, or by
letter of attorney, in the county court where the land or estate intended
to be conveyed, or the use thereof limited or declared, doth
lie, or before two justices of the peace of such county, or before
any one of the judges of the said judicial districts in which the said
lands, tenements or estates do lie, or in the manner heretofore prescribed
by law.
See 1715, ch.
47, 1752, ch. 8, Nov. 1766, ch. 14, and 1798, ch. 103. |
How non-residents
may acknowledge
deeds,
&c. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the letter of attorney
in virtue
of which any such deed or conveyance shall be acknowledged, shall
be proved by the oath or affirmation, as the case may be, of the
subscribing witnesses to the same, or any of them, before any one
of the judges of some one of the judicial districts of this state, or
before the governor or chief magistrate, mayor of some corporation,
a court of justice, or judge thereof (b); and if the same
shall not have been proved before any one of the judges of
some one of the judicial districts of this state, but shall be
proved before a governor or chief magistrate, mayor, court of
justice, or judge thereof, 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 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,
(b) By December 1813, ch. 104,
the letter of attorney may also be proved in
the county court of the county where the land or estate intended to be
conveyed
doth lie, or before two justices of the peace of such
county, or before the governor
or chief magistrate, mayor of some corporation, a notary public, a court
of
justice, or judge thereof, of the state, place or country, where any such
letter of attorney shall have been executed; and if so proved, how to be
certified,
&c. |
How the letter of
attorney for acknowledging
a deed
b a non-resident
shall be proved,
&c. |
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