1833.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 181.

CHAPTER 180.

Passed Mar. 12,1834

An act to authorise the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more to pass Ordinances, relative to Mount Vernon, or
Washington Place.

To regulate porches
&e

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore be, and
they are hereby empowered to pass ordinances regulating
the limits within which it shall be lawful to erect steps,
porticoes or porches, or other architectural ornaments to
houses fronting on Mount Vernon or Washington Place, in
the city of Baltimore, any act of Assembly heretofore in
force to the contrary notwithstanding.

CHAPTER 181.

Passed Mar. 14,1834

An act relating to Mortgages.

In case of mort-
gage

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Ma-
ryland, That where any conveyance of any free hold estate
by way of mortgage or trust, or otherwise to secure the
payment of any debts have been or shall be executed, and
the mortgagees or peisons to whom the debts are or shall

And death of mort-
gagee

he payable,sball depart this life or have departed the same,
the receipts or acquittances of the executors or adminis-

His representatives
may release

trators of such moitgagees or persons afoiesaid, acknowl-
edging the full payments of such debts, and acknowledged
and recotded in manner and time as prescribed tor acknow-
ledging and recording conveyances of lands by way of
mortgage, shall have the same force and effect as any recon-
veyances or releases to the grantors or bargainors in said
conveyances, their heirs or assigns of said estate, and all
interest therein, would have had if executed by such mort-
gagees or persons aforesaid, or the original grantees or bar-
gainees or holders of the legal interest and estate in said
freehold under such conveyances.

In case of assent of
mortgagee to pass
a decree

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, (in order to the facilitating the
enforcement of mortgages of real property and estate in
the city of Baltimore,) that in alt cases of conveyances by
way of mortgage of lands or hereditaments or chattels
real, situate in the city of Baltimore, and where in the said
conveyances the mortgagor shall declare his assent to the