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CHAP. 154. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
before directed, when such feme-covert shall be named as grantor,
bargainor, vendor or donor, in any such deed or conveyance,
or be about to relinquish her dower in any lands, tenements or hereditaments,
mentioned in such deed or conveyance; and such deed
or conveyance, acknowledged before such commissioners, or any
two of them, in the manner herein before directed, and which examination
and acknowledgment being certified under the hands and
seals of the said commissioners, so taking such examination and
acknowledgment, and returned with such deed or conveyance and
commission aforesaid to the court from whence the said commission
shall issue, shall be recorded amongst the records of the said court,
and shall be as valid and effectual in law, to all intents and purposes,
as if the same had been executed or acknowledged in this state
agreeably to the provisions of the several acts of assembly in force
upon this subject previous to the passing of this act. |
Deeds by nonresidents,
when to be
recorded.
* Ch. 103. |
6. PROVIDED ALWAYS, AND BE IT ENACTED, That
any deed
or conveyance, executed and acknowledged in virtue of this act,
shall be recorded within the time prescribed by the act, entitled, A
further additional supplementary act to the act to which this is also
a further additional supplementary act, passed at November session,
in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
ninety eight. * |
Deeds may be acknowledged
as
heretofore. |
7. PROVIDED ALWAYS, AND BE IT ENACTED, That
nothing herein
contained shall have operation to prevent the execution, acknowledgment
and recording of deeds, according to the provisions of the
law now in force.
See note under section l. |
Clerks of the
court of appeals
may record all
deeds, &c. |
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the clerks of the
court of appeals
be and they are hereby directed and authorised to record all deeds
of conveyance, or extracts of deeds, required by law to be recorded,
in the same manner that the late clerks of the general court
might or could have done (b), and that they receive the same fees
therefor as are charged and received by the clerks of the county
courts of this state for the like services.
(b) See 1785, ch. 9, s. 4, 5, and 6. |
Papers assenting
to the issuing
commissions to be
retained in the
clerks office. |
9. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the clerk
to retain, file and preserve, in his office, all such written papers
purporting to be the assent of grantors or femes-covert to the issuing
of commissions as directed by this act. |
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Passed Jan. 20, 1808. |
CHAP. CLV.
An Act for the preservation of the Navigation of the North-West
Branch of Nanticoke River, in Dorchester County.
Lib. TH. No.
1, fol. 501. |
| Preamble. |
WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly,
that the navigation
of the north-west branch of the said river is much injured
by the erection of wears and hedges in and upon the same; therefore, |
Wears made between
channel of
river & the Walnut
Landing, declared
nuisances. |
2. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That
all wears and hedges already made, or hereafter to be made, in
the channel of that part of the said branch of the said river which
lies between the channel of the main river and the place on the
aforesaid branch or river called The Walnut Landing, so as to
stop the passage of boats or vessels, or in any manner injure the
navigation of the said branch or river, shall be deemed, and are |
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